Obit: Selves, Anna #2 (1922 - 2009)

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Surnames: Selves, Taniyama, Cook 
 

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Friday, 26 June 2009 
 

Selves, Anna (2 Dec. 1922 - 24 June 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 Selves. She attended and graduated from St. Mary's Catholic High School in Milwaukee, and then worked for three years at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee for Dr. J. Reynolds. She was united in marriage to Lee Selves on 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. 
 

She is survived by her children, Tom (Kathryn) Selves of Chili, and Sharon (James Taniyama) Cook of South Kingstown, R.I., and six grandsons. 
 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee, in 1987. 
 

Funeral services for Anna will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, at the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville. Interment will be in the town of Lynn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday with a 7:30 p.m. rosary service at the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville. 
 

The Gesche Funeral Home is assisting Anna's family with funeral arrangements.