Obit: Bizjak, August #2 (1907 - 1967)

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Surnames: Bizjak, Wehrman, Howard, Reineking

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.)   02/23/1967

Bizjak, August #2 (26 MAR 1907 - 14 FEB 1967)

Services were held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Hill Funeral Home here for August Bizjak, 59, route 1, Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.), who passed away Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1967 in St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield.  The Rev. David Logue, pastor of Zion-Immanuel United Churches of Christ, officiated.  Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Bizjak was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on March 26, 1907, and at an early age came with his parents to Willard.  He farmed in the Greenwood area until 1960, when because of ill health he retired.  Since then, he has made his home with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bizjak, Greenwood, and later with his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wehrman, Loyal.  He never married.

Mr. Bizjak was a member of the Slovenian National Benefit Society.

Survivors are two brothers, Joe, Greenwood, and John of Thorp; and three sisters, Mrs. Rose Howard, New York City, N.Y.; Mrs. Albert (Agnes) Wehrman, Loyal; and Mrs. Norman (Sophie) Reineking, Colby.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother Karl.