Surnames: Gehrke, Anderson, Matson, Warencke

----Sources: Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc, Wis.) 3 Sept. 2004

Gehrke, Villa E. ( 5 Nov. 1931 - 31 Aug. 2004)

OWEN -Villa E. Gehrke, 72, Owen, died Aug. 31, 2004, in the emergency room of Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.

Memorial services will be at 7 p.m. Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church, Withee. Inurnment will be in Riverside Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6 p.m. until time of services Friday at the church.

Maurina Funeral Home is assisting the family.

Villa was born Nov. 5, 1931, in Rome, Ga., to Ed and Dorothy Anderson. She and Alfred Gehrke were married Nov. 15, 1949, in Neillsville. She worked at Master Packaging in Owen until her retirement in 1995.

Villa is survived by her husband, Alfred of Owen; her daughter, Peggy (Ron) Matson, Withee; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; two brothers, Harvey (Velda) Anderson, Withee, and Leland (Barbara) Anderson, Richmond, Ill.; and one sister, Lillian Warencke, Wisconsin Rapids.