Obit: Selves, Anna Irene (1922 - 2009)

Contact: Dolores Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Selves, Pafiak, Kucho, Cook, Taniyama, Reynolds, Pace

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 1, 2009

Anna Selves, 86, of Neillsville, formerly of Granton, died Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at the Memorial Health and Rehabilitation Center in Neillsville.

Anna Irene Selves was born Dec. 2, 1922, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Ernest and Julia (Pafiak) Kucho. She attended and graduated from St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Milwaukee and then worked for three years at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Milwaukee for Dr. J. Reynolds. She was united in marriage to Lee Selves March 5, 1946, in Neillsville. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Granton and farmed 79 acres in the Town of Lynn.  Along with farming, Anna was raising their two children, Tom and Sharon.

Anna was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Neillsville. 

She is survived by her children, Tom (Kathryn) Selves of Chili and Sharon (James Taniyama) Cook of South Kingstown, RI, and six grandsons, Adam Cook, Andy Cook, Jason Selves, Corey Selves, Troy Selves and Jeremy Selves.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee, in 1987; her parents; one brother, Ernest; and two sisters, Julia and Agnes.

Funeral services for Anna were held at 11 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, at the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville with visitation from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday and a 7:30 p.m. Rosary Service.  The officiant was Fr. Woodrow H. Pace.  Interment was in the Town of Lynn Cemetery.

Casketbearers were her grandsons.

Online condolences may be made at www.GescheFH.com.

The Gesche Funeral Home assisted Anna’s family with funeral arrangements.