Obit: Ross, Edna I. (1879 - 1959)

 

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: Ross, Flake, Gillard, Bauman, Fischer, Holmes

 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 16, 1959

 

Ross, Edna I. (1879 - 13 July 1959)

 

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home for Mrs. Edna I. Ross, 80, of Neillsville, who died here Monday. The Rev. Virgil Holmes will officiate, and burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.


Mrs. Ross, the former Edna Gillard, was born in 1879 in Minnesota. She came with her parents, the late James and Rosetta (Flake) Gillard, to Clark County. The family settled on a farm in Shortville, where they farmed for many years.  She was married March 21, 1914 to Henry Ross in Neillsville.

 

She is survived by a sister, Olivia Bauman, Neillsville; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gussie (Elgie) Fischer, Chicago, Ill.; and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Gladys Gillard, Neillsville, and Mrs. Art Gillard, Watertown.

 

 


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