Obit: Schneider, Anna Annetta #3 (1913 - 2007)

Contact:  Audrey Roedl
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Surnames: SCHNEIDER BUSS HILL BURTARD

----Sources: Loyal TRG 18 July 2007

Schneider, Anna A. (15 MAY 1913 - 16 JUL 2007)

Anna A. Schneider, 94, Greenwood, died on Monday, July 16, 2007, at Neillsville Memorial Medical Center, Neillsville, Wis. Visitation will be held at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Greenwood, on Friday, July 20, from 9 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Schwinn will officiate. Burial will follow in the Greenwood City Cemetery.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, is assisting the family with arrangements.

(Follow on in 7/25/2007 TRG)

Anna Schneider, 94, Greenwood, died on Monday, July 16, 2007, at Memorial Medical Center, Neillsville, Wis. Funeral services were held Friday, July 20, at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Greenwood. The Rev. Mark Schwinn officiated. Burial followed in the Greenwood City Cemetery. Pallbearers were her grandsons: Paul Schneider, Christopher Schneider, Matthew Schneider, Nathan Schneider, Scott Schneider, and Kendrick Schneider.

Anna Annetta Buss was born on May 15, 1913, in the town of Green Grove, to Emil and Elizabeth (nee Buss) Buss. She was raised on the family farm, near Owen, and received her education at Midway school in the town of Hoard. She married Robert Schneider on April 10, 1934, at the Curtiss Reformed Church with the Rev. H. K. Martin officiating. They resided in Greenwood where she was a homemaker and raised her six sons. She worked for the telephone company in Greenwood as a switchboard operator, was a cook and waitress at the Greenwood Café, and also worked as a cook at the Black River View Apartments, Greenwood. Her husband, Robert, died on June 20, 1982. She continued to reside in Greenwood until the time of her death. She was a member of the former Zion United Church of Christ and a present member of Immanuel United Church of Christ, where she was active in the Ladies Guild and was a Sunday school teacher. She also served as a Boy Scout parent/leader in Greenwood. She had many interests, but especially enjoyed going to the cabin in Park Falls, gardening, traveling, quilting, knitting and crocheting hats, mittens and afghans for relatives, nursing homes, youth homes, and for anyone who was in need.

She will be sadly missed by her six sons: Allen, Greenwood. Robert (Elida), Stoughton, David (Beth), Wasilla, Alaska, Tom (Sue), Queensland, Townsville. Australia, Jerry (Jana), Rice Lake, and John (Lori) Greenwood; nine grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandchild; two sisters, Linda (Rueben) Hill, Owen, and Elda Burtard, Owen; two sisters-in-law, Gertrude Buss, Owen, and Florence Schneider, Colby; numerous nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Robert; two sisters, Emma Hamer and Minnie Schneider; and one brother, Henry Buss.

The family requests that memorials be given in her name to Immanuel United Church of Christ or the American Cancer Society.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, assisted the family with arrangements.