Obit: Erwin, Frances L. #2 (1893 - 1967)

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Surnames: Erwin, Hoffman, Colby, Walterscheidt

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.)   12/21/1967

Erwin, Frances L. #2 (27 JUL 1893 - 13 DEC 1967)

Mrs. Wilbur E. Erwin, 74, Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.), died at 2:45 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1967 at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville following a lingering illness.

Services were conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Hill Funeral Home, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Mary’s Catholic Church.  Father William Nikolai of Willard officiated, and burial was in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

A general rosary services was held at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

The former Frances Lenore Hoffman was born July 27, 1893 in Madison, and received her education there.  Her marriage to Wilbur Erwin took place Jan. 29, 1913 at Madison.

The couple made their home in Madison until 1915, when they came to the Loyal area and settled on a farm.  They retired from farming in 1962, and moved to the city of Greenwood in September of this year.

Mrs. Erwin was a member of St. Anthon’s Catholic Church at Loyal and its Altar Society.

In addition to her husband, survivors are a son, Victor of Hales Corners; a daughter, Mrs. Margery Colby, greenwood; a sister, Mrs. Fred (Elsie) Walterscheidt, Madison; five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Four brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.