Obit: Winamaki, Jacob (1885 - 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Winamaki, Dahl, Johnson, Bjorn, Kangas, Hums, Salmi, Graham

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 9, 1961

Winamaki, Jacob (6 September 1885 - 1 March 1961)

Funeral services were held Saturday in Owen for Jacob Winamaki, 75, who died of old age complications at his home in the Town of Longwood March 1.

In charge of the service was a clergyman from the Apostolic Lutheran Church in Negaunee, Mich.  Burial was made in the Riverside Cemetery at Withee.

Born September 6, 1885, in Lapplan, Finland, Mr. Winamaki came to this country with his parents at an early age. The family settled in Negaunee, where he was married to Hanna Dahl on August 31, 1907.  She died November 7, 1926.

The family moved to the Owen area on June 29, 1911, and settled on a farm in the Town of Longwood, where he remained for the remainder of his life.  On May 20, 1931, he was married to Mrs. Anna Johnson, who survives.

Also surviving are six children, Mrs. Ensio (Sylvia) Bjorn of Owen, Mrs. William (Ella) Kangas of Rt. 1 Owen, mrs. Walter (Edith) Hums of Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. Marvin (Mayme) Salmi of Milwaukee, Wayne of Healsbury, Calif., and Ralph, who is with the army in Korea; three stepsons, Albert, Robert, and Wilbert Johnson, all of Detroit, Mich.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Glen Graham of Detroit, Mich,; two sisters in Finland; a brother, Hjalmer Winamaki (any other names cut off).