Obit: Decker, Otto #2 (1871 - 1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Decker, Meier, Shortess, Pawlacyk, Wolf, Fillippe, O’Connell, Kraatz, Geisler, Humke, Kuehn, Vollrath, Goeke, Fravert, Albert, Koch 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) November 8, 1956 
 

Decker, Otto (19 July 1871 - 29 October 1956) 
 

Funeral services for Otto Decker, 85, of Spencer, former Greenwood resident, were held Thursday afternoon at the West Side Church at Greenwood.  The Rev. Charles Koch officiated.  Burial was made in the West Side Cemetery. 
 

Pallbearers were: Arthur Humke, Hubert Kuehn, Henry Vollrath, William Goeke and Otto and Albert Fravert. 
 

During the services the senior choir sang with organ accompaniment by Mrs. Alvin Albert. 
 

Mr. Decker, who was born July 19, 1871, in Sheboygan County, came to Greenwood with his parents at an early age.  After his marriage to Lydia Meier August 16, 1899, at the West Side Church, they farmed northwest of here.  She died in 1936.  For the past 15 years he had been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Shortess at Spencer.  For a number of years he was treasurer of the Town of Warner.   
 

He is survived by 10 children - Mrs. J. R. (Dorothy) Shortess of Spencer; Mrs. John (Edna) Pawlacyk of Soquel, Calif.; Mrs. Elmer (Elenor) Wolf of Neenah; Mrs. Harold (Elsie) Fillippe of Glen, Minn.; Mrs. Leo (Leona) O’Connell of Rockford, Ill.; Fred and Theodore of Greenwood; Otto of Union, Ill.; Gilbert of Fountain City; and Arthur of St. Paul.  Other survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Louisa Kraatz, of Fond du Lac, and Mrs. Ed (Amelia) Geisler of Cornell; 27 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 
 

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1936, one child, five brothers and one sister.