Obit: Boedeker, Meta (1872 - 1947)

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Surnames: BOEDEKER GOSSE

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wis.) 03/??/1947

Boedeker, Meta (29 JAN 1872 - 1 MAR 1947)

Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) - Mrs. Simon Boedeker, 75, who had been confined to her bed since last September, died at 7:45 p.m. Saturday (Mar 1, 1947) at her home 4 ½ miles northwest of Greenwood. She had been ill with diabetes the past 20 years.

The body is lying in state at the Schiller Funeral Home, where funeral rites will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. At 2 o’clock another service will be held at the West Side Reformed Church, the Rev. J.C. Klingeberger officiating. Interment will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

Mrs. Boedeker, the former Meta Gosse, was born in the Town of Herman, Sheboygan Co., Ja. 20, 1872, and was married there Dec. 12, 1891, to Simon Boedeker, who preceded her in death a month ago on Feb. 2.

The Boedekers lived in the Town of Herman until 1901, when they came to Clark County to farm in the West Side Settlement, west of Greenwood.

Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Clara Boedeker, and granddaughter, Marilyn, who live at Rosendale, and three sisters. Her son, Orlando preceded his mother in death.