Obit: Boh, Margaret (1879 - 1965)

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Surnames: Boh, Swegel, Nikolai

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) April 1965

Boh, Margaret (Dec. 3, 1879 - Apr. 21, 1965)

GREENWOOD - Mrs. Margaret Boh, 85, Willard, died of a heart attack at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, Wis.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Hill Funeral Home here, and at 10 a.m. at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard with the Rev. William Nikolai officiating. Burial will be made in the Holy Family cemetery.

The body will repose at the funeral home from Friday noon until time of services. A general rosary service will be conducted there at 8 p.m. Friday.

The former Margaret Swegel was born Dec. 3, 1879, in Yugoslavia. Her marriage to Frank Boh, who preceded her in death Aug. 20, 1960, took place April 27, 1903, at Pueblo, Colo.

The couple lived in Colorado until 1913, when they came to a farm northwest of Willard. After the death of her husband, she made her home with her children until 1963, when she went to the Clark County Home for the aged at Greenwood. Since July, 1964, she had resided at the Memorial Home in Neillsville, Wis.

Mrs. Boh was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church at Willard.

Survivors include three sons, Joseph, Neillsville; Daniel, Willard; and William, Greenwood. A brother, Peter Swegel, Kurtright, N.Y.; 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was proceded in death by three daughters, a son, two brothers and two sisters.