Obit: Madsen, Albert E. (1899 - 1955)

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Surnames: Madsen, Randolph, Muranko

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04/07/1955

Madsen, Albert E. (10 MAR 1899 - 5 APR 1955)

A heart condition from which he had been suffering for the past two years proved fatal to Albert Ernest Madsen, 56, who passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield Tuesday morning.

Funeral services will be conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home in Owen at three o’clock tomorrow afternoon, Friday, April 8^th.  The Rev. W. C. Nielsen will officiate at the service with burial being made at Riverside Cemetery.  Vocal selections during the service will be rendered by Mesdames Duane Bulgrin and Alfred Thompson.

Serving as pallbearers will be Jens Smith, Carl Riber, Emil Hansen, Withee, Duane Rittenhouse, C. N. McMillian, Owen and Art Jensen of Eau Claire.

For years Mr. Madsen was a resident of Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) coming here with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Madsen from Racine where he was born on March 10, 1899, when but a youngster of three years of age.  Here he attended the Owen Public schools and was engaged in a partnership in the operation of a garage where the present day county garage is located for several years.  After dissolving partnership in the garage business he moved to Medford where he worked as a mechanic and later served the Marshfield Oil Co., as their bulk agent in the Medford area for a period of 12 years.

His passing is mourned by his wife, the former Bertha Randolph, whom he married on May 21, 1928, in St. Paul, Minn.; one brother, Peter of Owen, and a sister, Mrs. E. A. (Mary) Muranko of Chicago, Ill.