Obit: Thiel, Mamie Emma (1896 - 1997)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Thiel, Tomlinson, Suter, Erickson, Radle, Hei, Wagner, Boyer, Kind, Adler, Diercks, Olson

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., WI.) January 29, 1997

Thiel, Mamie Emma (2 July 1896 - 21 January 1997)

Mamie Emma Thiel, 100, formerly of Greenwood, died Tuesday, January 21, 1997, at Memorial Nursing Home, Neillsville.

Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 25, 1997 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenwood.

Rev. Robert Olson officiated. Burial was in the Greenwood City Cemetery.  Pallbearers were: Jim Thiel, Vic Wagner, Larry Boyer, Orlando Kind, Richard Adler and Victor Diercks.

Mamie Emma Suter was born on July 2, 1896, in Plum City, to Theodore and Ida Jane (nee Tomlinson) Suter.  She grew up on a farm near plum City and received her education at a Plum City country school.  She then went to work as a clerk for a store in town.  Later she worked at a bank in Plum City and stayed there until 1920.  She married Charles Thiel on July 6, 1920.  They lived in the Thorp area.  After the children grew up, she moved back to Plum City.  As World War II ended; her son Bruce came home from the service and she moved with her two sons to Greenwood.  She worked at Redville Dairy in Greenwood, waitressed, took in sewing and baby sat.  She resided in Greenwood until entering the nursing home in 1995.  She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenwood.

Survivors include two sons: Bruce (Delores) Thiel, Greenwood, and Gordon Thiel, Dodgeville; and one daughter, Selma (Duane) Erickson, Sacramento, CA; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two sisters: Joyce (Carl) Radle, Arkansaw and Mildred Hei, Plum City.

She was preceded in death by her husband on July 11, 1962, her parents, one son, Arlyn in infancy; and three sisters: Anna, Gladys and Bernice.

Rinka Funeral home, Greenwood assisted the family with arrangements.