Surnames: Decker, Prouty, Van Gorder, Nimbar, Brown

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Wed, Mar 23, 2005

Decker, Vernie Rebecca (20 Sept. 1904 - 21 March 2005)

GREENWOOD - Vernie Rebecca Decker, 100, of Greenwood died Monday, March 21, 2005, at the Clark County Health Care Center in Owen.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Cuddie Funeral Home in Greenwood. Burial will follow in Greenwood City Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home.

Vernie as born Sept. 20, 1904, in Thorp to George and Julia Mae (Prouty) Van Gorder. She married Ernest Nimbar on Dec. 31, 1921. They lived in Withee, where she was a homemaker and owned the Greenwood Cafe until her husband died on Feb. 28, 1963. She then married Arno Decker on Aug. 18, 1973, at Zion United Church of Christ in Greenwood. He died on June 26, 1984.

She is survived by her daughter, Erma Brown, Greenwood; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.