Obit: Reese, Anna Laura (1883 - 1960)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Reese, Williams, Specht, Cross, Butcher, Cross, Baird, Vollrath, Speich, Metcalf, Beyer. Baughman, Bollig, Marsden

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 11, 1960

Reese, Anna Laura (16 September 1883 - 1 February 1960)

Miss Anna Laura Reese, 76, of Greenwood died February 1, in Logansport, Ind., where she had been a patient for a week.  Death was attributed to pneumonia.   She had been in poor health for some time and had gone to Logansport in November for a visit with her sister, Miss Lulu Reese.

Miss Reese, daughter of Thomas S. and Mary Ann (Williams) Reese, was born September 16, 1883, in Ridgeway and spent most of her life in Greenwood.  She received her education in Ridgeway, Platteville State Teachers College and Eau Claire State Teachers College.  She taught in schools of Wisconsin and South Dakota. She was a lifelong Baptist.

Survivors are four sisters: Mrs. Charles P. (Sara) Specht of Madison, Mrs. James L. (Henrietta) Cross of Blue Mound, Mrs. Lucian (Emma) Butcher of Chicago, Ill., and Miss Lulu Reese of Logansport, Ind.; and a brother, David Reese of Greenwood.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. last Thursday from the Hill Funeral Home here. The Rev. Victor C. Cross, pastor of the Mission Baptist Church, officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were: H. R. Baird, George Vollrath, George Speich, James Metcalf, Henry Vollrath and Arnold Beyer.  Mr. and Mrs. John Baughman sang "Take Your Burdens to the Lord," and Mrs. Baughman sang, "Beyond the Sunset," accompanied by Mrs. Ernest Baughman.

Those from away who attended included: Mrs. James L. Cross of Blue Mound; Robert Reese and Mrs. Richard Bollig of Madison; Charles S. Specht and William R. Specht of Prairie du Chien; Mrs. Emma J. Butcher of Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Marsden of Kenosha; and Miss Lulu M. Reese of Logansport, Ind.