Obit: Matthias, Vernon (1925? - 1939)

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Surnames: Matthias, Powe

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 10/19/1939

Matthias, Vernon (1925? - 12 Oct. 1939)

Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon for Vernon Matthias, fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Matthias, of the town of Green Grove who died last Thursday at 11:30 P.M. A brain tumor was the cause of his death after an illness of five years. Rev. W. P. D. Powe, pastor of the Owen Congregational church, officiated at the funeral rites at the home and at the Rural Union Chapel. Internment was made in the Riverside cemetery.

The deceased is survived by his parents and two brothers, Robert Matthias of San Diego, Calif., and Dale Matthias, age eleven, at home.