Obit: Long, Anna Irene (1907 - 1989)

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Surnames: Long, Wilardsen, Newman, Ridpath, Meyer, Rohland

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Monday, 15 May 1989; Page 6

Long, Anna Irene (17 Nov. 1907 - 14 May 1989)

Owen - Anna I. Long, 81, Owen, died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday at Continental Manor Nursing Home, Abbotsford, Wis.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Withee, with the Rev. Tom Willardsen officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Visitations will be at Maurina Funeral Home, Owen, after 4 p.m. today.

The former Anna Irene Newman was born Nov. 17, 1907, in Owen, to Ollie and Lottie Newman. She attended Owen High School.

She married to Sherman Long Nov. 14, 1927. He died in December 1968.

After her marriage, she and her husband lived in Curtiss, where her husband operated Long’s Service Station. She later lived in Owen for eight years. For the past two years, she resided with her daughter, Marion Ridpath, Owen, Wis.

She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church.

She is survived by three other daughters, Mrs. Warren (Betty) Meyer of Marquette, Mich., Mrs. Edmond (Dorothy) Rohland of **Rest cut off. ***