Obit: Possley, Hilda #2 (1888 - 1955)

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Surnames: Possley, Smigaj, Trautschold, Klauck, Kennedy

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 08/25/1955

Possley, Hilda #2 (17 SEP 1888 - 13 AUG 1955)

Funeral services for Mrs. Nick Possley of Macomb, Ill. were held at ten o’clock Wednesday morning, Aug. 17^th from the Gerend Funeral Home at Sheboygan, Wis., with a requiem high Mass by Father Kennedy, a nephew of the deceased, at the Holy Name Catholic Church.  Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

Mrs. Possley, 66, died as the result of an automobile accident at Monmouth, Wis., at 9:00 p.m. on Aug. 13^th, 1955.

Hilda Trautschold was born in Sheboygan, Wis., on Sept. 17, 1888.  She was united in marriage to Nick Possley on Sept. 17, 1909 at Sheboygan.  The Possleys came to Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.) from Watertown, Wis., in 1922 and resided here until 1940.  At that time they moved to Mendota, Ill., and later to Macomb, Ill.

Mrs. Possley had many friends in this community who deeply mourn her untimely passing.

She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Lenore, Mrs. Ben Smigaj of Macomb, Ill., and two sons, Raymond of Mendota, Ill., and Roger of Dundee, Mich.; two brothers, Walter Trautschold, Sheboygan and Raymond Trautschold, Kohler; three sisters, Mrs. Sylvia Klauck, Los Angeles, Mrs. Phaly Kennedy, Sheboygan and Sister Perfecta, Marshfield, Wis., and 7 grandchildren.  One son, Clifton, and one sister, Marie, preceded her in death.