Obit: Winslow, Willard L. #2 (1920 - 1950)

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Surnames: Winslow, Bangle, Steffen, Schultz

----Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.)   07/06/1950

Winslow, Willard L. #2 (20 JUN 1920 - 21 JUN 1950)

Final rites were conducted from the Griebenow Funeral Home in Owen at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 24, for Willard L. Winslow.  In charge of the services was the Rev. Dr. K. O. Crosby of St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church of Owen.  After wards military services were conducted at Owen’s Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Harold and Emery Sorenson, Jim Petersen, Waino and Wandi Hautamaki and Ed Rinehart.

Mr. Winslow, 30, was born on June 20, 1920, in Eau Claire.  He succumbed to the effects of a lingering illness on June 21, 1950 at the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis.  He was admitted to the hospital on June 9 for a physical examination.  One week later he submitted to surgery but passed away five days after.

He spent his entire boyhood in the South Bright community, where he received his schooling.  He was a serviceman with more than two years of military service, entering the armed forces on Mar. 2, 1942.  He received his discharge on Mar. 9, 1944, after having served for 18 months with Company C. of the 101^st Signal Battalion in the South Pacific Theater.

On Sept. 7, 1946, he was united in marriage with Miss Armilla Bangle of Owen.  He had pursued the occupation of farming since his service discharge, and the couple resided on a farm near Curtiss before acquiring  a place of their own near Spencer, where they had successfully and happily resided until his illness and death.

Surviving his untimely passed are his wife and infant son, William; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Winslow; two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Ernestine) Steffen of Neillsville, and Mrs. Ferry (Fern) Schultz of Colby, and four brothers, John, Robert, Louis and Lawrence.