Obit: Alexander, Marcella E. #3 (1947 - 1956)

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Surnames: Alexander, Brecker

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 12/06/1956

Alexander, Marcella E. #3 (6 APR 1947 - 30 NOV 1956)

Marcella Elaine Alexander, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alexander, route 1, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) died Friday at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been a patient for four weeks.  A victim of leukemia, she has been ill for a month prior to hospitalization.

Services were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the North Green Grove Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Martin Krause officiating.  Burial was made in the South Green Grove Cemetery.

Marcella, who was born April 6, 1947, was a fourth grade pupil at the Elmwood School.  She is survived by her parents, two sisters and two brothers, Marie Ellen, Marlene Elizabeth, Dale Alvin and David Allen, all at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brecker, Loyal; and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bird Alexander, Owen.