Surnames: Winslow, Bangle, Steffen, Schultz

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06/29/1950

Winslow, Willard L. (20 JUN 1920 - 21 JUN 1950)

Final rites were conducted from the Griebenow Funeral Home (Owen, Wisconsin) at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 24, 1950 for Willard L. Winslow. The Rev. Dr. K. O. Crosby, pastor of St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church, Owen, officiated at the service. Later military services were conducted at the Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Harold and Emery Sorenson, Jim Petersen, Waino and Wandt Hautamaki, and Ed Rhinehardt.

Willard L. Winslow, aged 30 years, was born on June 20, 1920 in the City of Eau Claire. He succumbed to the effects of a long lingering illness on June 21st, 1950 at the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis. He was admitted to the hospital on June 9th for a physical examination. One week later he submitted to surgery on the 16th and passed away five days later.

He spent his entire boyhood in this community, receiving his schooling at the South Bright School. He was a serviceman with more than two years of military service entering the armed forces on March 2, 1942. He received his discharge on March 9, 1944, after having served for 18 months with Co. "C" of the 101st Signal Battalion in the South Pacific there’re of operations.

On Sept. 7th, 1946 he was united in marriage to Miss Armilla Bangle of this city (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.). Willard had pursued the occupation of farming since his discharge, and the couple resided on the S. J. Jacobsen farm near Curtiss for several months before acquiring a place of their own near Spencer, where they had successfully and happily resided until his illness.

Surviving his untimely passing are his wife and son William, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Winslow; two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Ernestine) Steffen of Neillsville; Mrs. Ferry (Fern) Schultz, Colby; and four brothers, John, Robert, Louis and Lawrence, and a large number of friends whom he had endeared himself to through his social contacts. He was a member of the Van Huizen-Fritz American Legion Post and a member of the "On the Farm Training" class at the Owen High School.