Obit: Richardson, Harry (1895 - 1966)

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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Richardson, Pushee, Curran, Bunsen, Ortwig, Harrington, Wortham, Brown, Wilson, Swisher

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.)   09/15/1966

Richardson, Harry (2 JAN 1895 - 5 SEP 1966)

Mr. Harry Richardson, age 71 of R. 1, Greenwood (Clark Co.), Wis., died Sept. 3, 1966 at Zion Benton Hospital, Zion, Ill., after a brief illness.  Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8^th at the Congdon Funeral Home, Zion, Ill., with Rev. Theodore Mason and Rev. Robert Liechty officiating, with interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Zion, Ill.

Mr. Richardson was born in Minnesota on Jan. 2, 1895.  He moved to Zion, Illinoi in 1902.  He owned several gas stations in that area before moving to Greenwood, Wis. in 1949.

Survivors are his widow, Mildred, three sons, Earl of Greenwood; Ernest and Glenn of Zion; four daughters, Mrs. Robert (Ethel) Pushee, Zion; Mrs. Raymond (Gladys) Curran, Winthrop Harbor; Mrs. Paul (Marjorie) Bunsen, Zion; and Mrs. Samuel (Myrtle) Ortwig of Greenwood; 28 grandchildren; one brother, Vernon of Zion; five sisters, Mrs. Elsie Harrington of Crete, Ill.; Mrs. Mabel Wortham, Zion, Mrs. Elva Brown of California; Mrs. Ida Wilson of Necedah, Wis., and Mrs. Grace Swisher of Zion.

Mr. Richardson’s parents him in death, his father G. J. Richardson in 1932 and his mother Ida in 1963.