Obit: Locke, Claire (? - 1959)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Locke, Scholtz, Miller, Seaman, Frederickson, Rosandich

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 8, 1959

Locke, Claire (? - 1 January 1959)

Sherwood People at Locke Funeral - Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Scholtz and son, Gene, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miller attended the funeral of their former neighbor, Claire Locke, 53, at Marshfield, Monday.

Mr. Locke lived for three years with his family on a farm just east of the Scholtz farm, which they bought from Joe and Julius Seeman.  Last year they sold the farm to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frederickson and lived on the Louis Rosandich farm in Sherwood for six months.  During the last few months they lived in Marshfield, where Mr. Locke was employed.

While traveling on the Pennsylvania turnpike in December he stopped to fix a tire and was caught in a car smashup of two other cars.  He died January 1^st of injuries sustained.