Obit: Awe, Elizabeth (1916 - 2006)

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Surnames: AWE LARSON AALBU KOLBO LEMMAR HAGEN

----Sources: Tribune-Record-Gleaner, Loyal, Wisconsin, 08 November 2006

Awe, Elizabeth (26 SEP 1916 - 30 OCT 2006)

Elizabeth "Betty" Awe, 90, Greenwood, died at the Clark County Health Care Center on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2006. Visitation will be held at Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, on Saturday, Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. The Rev. Kevin Hanke will officiate and inurnment will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Elizabeth Larson was born on Sept. 26, 1916, in the town of Warner, to Harold and Anna (nee Aalbu) Larson. She was raised on her family’s farm and received her education at the Christopherson School. She married Andrew Szymanski in April 1937. They later divorced. She married Palmer Kolbo in 1946 and they lived in Sparta. They later divorced and she moved to Loyal in 1966. She was a homemaker and farm wife most of her life and also worked at the Loyal Cannery and Figi’s for a short time. She married Herman Awe in June 1969 in Winona, Minn. He died in 1988. She was a Gray Lady volunteer at Neillsville Memorial Hospital for many years. She resided in Greenwood until her death.

Survivors include one daughter, Marganne (Harry) Lemmar, West Allis; two sons, Gene (Kelly) Kolbo, Greenwood, and Jesse (Katrina) Kolbo, Weyauwega; 11 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; nieces\;, nephews; and other relatives.

Preceding her in death were her parents; four brothers, Lawrence, Norman, Lloyd, and Lee Larson; and two sisters, Nora, "Peggy" Hagen and Mabel Larson.