Obit: Freese, Meta (1898 - 1981)

Contact: Crystal Wendt
Email: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Freese, Shepherd, Peterson

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Wed., 7 Jan. 1981; Page 7

Freese, Meta (31 July 1898 - 6 Jan. 1981)

Owen - Miss Meta Freese, 82, Milwaukee, died at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Sage Nursing home, Milwaukee.

The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Maurina Funeral Home; Owen, Wis. The Rev. Margaret Shepherd of First Congregational Church United Church of Christ is to officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

Friends may call afternoon Friday at the funeral home.

Miss Freese was born July 31, 1898 in the town of Maplehurst. In 1922, she moved to Milwaukee and worked there as a licensed practical nurse. She later moved to Arizona and returned to Milwaukee in 1963. She never married.

A nephew, Gilbert Peterson, Milwaukee, survives.