Obit: Allard, Blanche (1874 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Allard, Manchester, Sharp, Kennedy, Wuethrich, Syth, Clintsman, Christie, Huntzicker, Hohl, Dixon, Nulton, Fox 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 31, 1957 
 

Allard, Blanche (28 April 1874 - 20 October 1957) 
 

Funeral services for Mrs. A. J. (Blanche) Allard, 83, of Glenwood City were held Wednesday afternoon from Grace Methodist Church in Greenwood. Officiating were the Rev. Ethel Nulton of Greenwood and the Rev. Carl Fox of the Methodist Church of Glenwood City.  Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery. 
 

Mrs. Allard a former Greenwood resident, died October 20, in Baldwin. 
 

Pallbearers were: John D. Wuethrich, John and Arthur Syth, Francis and Fred Clintsman and Hugh Christie.  Mrs. Fred Huntzicker and Mrs. Fred Hohl sang, "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Rock of Ages," accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Donald Dixon.  
 

Mrs. Allard, nee Blanche Manchester, oldest daughter of John and Helen Manchester, was born April 28, 1874, in New Woodstock, N. Y.  She was married there to Aldon J. Allard on October 30, 1894.  They resided there until January 1900, when they came to Rib Lake and operated a jewelry store for 24 years.  In September, 1925, they moved to Greenwood, where they operated a grocery store.  Mr. Allard died in November, 1940.  Mrs. Allard resided here until 1946, when she moved to Curtiss.  She lived there or six years, then went to Glenwood City, where she lived with Miss Nellie Sharp. 
 

Attending the funeral were her niece, Mr. H. D. Kennedy of Abbotsford, and many friends from Abbotsford, Curtiss and Glenwood City.