Obit: Cole, Martha #2 (? - 1955)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Cole, Johnson, Dittner, Steinhaus, Beckman, Oman, Munger, Books, Muelling, Cumpston, Lawton, Walker, Prust 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) November 24, 1955 
 

Cole, Martha (? - 21 November 1955) 
 

Mrs. Martha Cole was interred Wednesday in the Greenwood Cemetery.  She had died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Johnson, in Greenwood.  She was 90. 
 

Mrs. Cole was the widow of Dr. B. A. Cole. The couple was for years honored residents of the Town of Butler. Dr. Cole had retired to a farm there in 1911, after having practiced at West Lima, Richland County, from the time of their marriage in 1888.  His failing health had driven him into retirement.  He died December 15, 1942. After the death of her husband Mrs. Cole resided with her son Bird, who died in 1951.  Mrs. Cole had since lived with one or another of her four daughters. 
 

Surviving are the daughters: Sarah, Mrs. Henry Dittner, Fall Creek; Mary, Mrs. George Steinhaus, Cornell; Mrs. Bethel Beckman, Eau Claire; Lois, Mrs. Leonard Johnson, Greenwood. She left 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 1, 1955 
 

Though she did not move there until after Dr. Cole had Quit Practicing: 
 

The interment of Mrs. Martha Cole marks the end of an unusual family experience.  Mrs. Cole was the widow of Dr. B. A. Cole, who identified himself with the Town of Butler, Clark County, by 31 years of residence there, but who did not come to this area until after he had completed his active work as a physician.  The Coles lived on a farm, in conditions which, in their early years of residence, bore the pioneer stamp, with much timber left around them.  
 

Dr. Cole is interred in the Brentwood Cemetery.  At her rites a clergyman from Chippewa Falls officiated, the Rev. Lawrence Oman.  A soloist, A. Munger, came from Eau Claire and played his own accompaniment.  The pallbearers were grandsons of Mrs. Cole - Maynard and Norman Dittner, Dale and Sam Johnson, Charles Books and Edwin Muelling. 
 

Relatives who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dittner of Fall Creek; Mr. and Mrs. George Steinhaus of Cornell; Mrs. Bethel Beckman, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Dittner and son Neil, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Books and Edwin Muelling, all of Eau Claire; Mrs. Belle Cumpston and son Noah of La Farge, Miss Anita Lawton of Viroqua; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Walker of Osseo, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prust, daughter Lois and son James of Sheboygan.  Others who attended were friends from Thorp, Butlerville, Loyal, Spencer, Cornell, Viroqua, Withee and Greenwood.