Surnames: Hodnett, Nevala

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 07/05/1951

Hodnett, Webster (10 FEB 1883 - 2 JUL 1951)

Funeral services for Webster Hodnett, 68, Town of Hixon (Clark Co., Wis.), who died Monday afternoon at about 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, of brain injuries received in an auto-tractor accident near Withee earlier in the forenoon, were held today at 2 p.m. from Griebenow’s Funeral Parlors, with Rev. Lelan M. Shaw, Stanley, officiating. Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Walter Ruggles, Guy Stewart, Hugo Wolters, Sam Hagen, Aflred Frost and Chris Klay. Those in charge of flowers were Elaine Zudony, Delores Ronzani, Fern Wiernasz and Pearl Spaeth.

Hodnett was riding on a tractor on Highway 29 not far from his home, two miles west of Withee, when a car came over the crest of a hell, hitting the tractor in the rear. The tractor was damaged considerably, being sheered right in half by a car driven by a man from West Allis, Wis., enroute to Stanley to visit with relatives over the 4th of July.

Hodnett was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital in an unconscious condition in the Owen Volunteer Fire Company’s ambulance.

The deceased was born in Reseburg Township on Feb. 10, 1883. The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hodnett. He had lived for a number of years at Wolters Corners. On Feb. 1, 1933 he was united in marriage to Martha Nevala at Withee, Wis. To this union two children were born, a son, Floyd, and a daughter, Joyce.

He had made his home for the past 15 years on his farm a mile and one-half west of Withee.

He leaves to mourn his sudden death, his wife, a son, a daughter and four brothers, Lynn, Earl, Aaron and Beecher. One brother, Arthur, preceded him in death.