Surnames: Yoder, Borck, Smith, Kristatter

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 03/08/1951

Yoder, George (22 OCT 1873 - 5 MAR 1951)

George W. Yoder, 77, Town of Dear Creek, died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Smith, Medford at 7 a.m. Monday. Masonic services will be conducted at the Hartwig and Ruesch Funeral Home at Medford at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, and burial will be in the Thorp Cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the funeral home from 10 o’clock Wednesday morning until the services.

The deceased was born at Menomonie, Oct. 22, 1873. He was married at Thorp to Lillie Borck in 1899. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1949.

He worked as a section foreman in Thorp and lived in Gilman from 1910 to 1944. For four years he worked as road master at S.M. & P. railroad.

He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Delmar (Edith) Smith; four grandchildren; a brother, Sam Yoder, Boyd; and a sister, May, who lives in Michigan.

(Follow on in 3/15/1951 Thorp Courier)

Masonic funeral services were conducted by Thorp Lodge No. 264 for George Yoder at the Medford Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8th. Interment took place in the east Thorp Cemetery, Thorp, Wis.

George W. Yoder was born Oct. 22, 1873 at Menomonie, Wis. His parents moved to Durand, Wis. the following year where he grew to manhood. While still a young man he went to Boyd and became employed on the Wis. Central Railroad, and he came to Thorp in 1894 where he held the position of Section Foreman for fourteen years.

He was united in marriage to Lillie Borck of Thorp on April 5, 1899. They moved to Gilman in 1910 where Mr. Yoder worked as Road master for the Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad, and from 1923 continued as section foreman when the road leased by the Soo Line. He retired with discontinuance of the railroad on April 15, 1933, after 43 years in the service.

Mr. and Mrs. Yoder resided on a small farm near Gilman until June 1944 and moved to Deercreek, Taylor Co., at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Smith, where he passed away on March 5, 1951.

He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Edith, Mrs. Delmar Smith, one sister, Mrs. Mae Kristatter of Michigan, one brother, Sam Yoder of boyd, and four grandchildren. Two brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.

Friends and relatives for out of town who were present and the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coates, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Verkuilen, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Laurent, Henry Coates, Henry Coates Jr., all of Thorp; Mr. and Mrs. George Badzinski, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Zetler, of Marshfield; Mrs. Tom Larsen, Neillsville; Mr. and Mrs. Art Shilts, Ed Berchem, Boyd; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Laurent, Medford; Sam Yoder, Boyd; Mrs. Martha Kingman, Mrs. Anna Rossman, Mrs. Joe Kavanaugh, Mr. and Mrs. George Bushman, Horace Lasig, Albert Lasig, Gilman; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Schmidt, Westboro; Charles Wyman, Colby, Wis.