Obit: Lindsley, Nora (1882 - 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lindsley, McCann, Coughlin, Padaries, Schunk, Becker, Dobes, Hart, Hartung, Prochazka, Skroch, Johnson, Eisenmann

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 18, 1961

Lindsley, Nora (2 October 1882 - 10 May 1961)

A requiem high mass was read Saturday morning in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Neillsville for Mrs. Henry Lindsley, 78, who died here Wednesday.  She had been a hospital patient for several weeks.  The Rev. Fr. Joseph Eisenmann officiated.  Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

The former Nora Coughlin, daughter of the late Timothy and Mary (McCann) Coughlin, was born October 2, 1882, in Michigan.  When she was a small child the family moved to the Neillsville area.

On April 24, 1907, she was married to Henry Lindsley in Neillsville.  They had resided in this community since.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

The ladies of the parish held a rosary service Friday afternoon and in the evening a general rosary was said at the Bergemann Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lindsley is survived by her husband, Henry Lindsley; and two sisters, Mrs. Ella Padaries, Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs. Meta Schunk, Marshfield.

Pallbearers were Henry Becker, Frank Dobes, Garald Hart, Joe Hartung, Robert Prochazka and Everett Skroch.

People from away here for the services were: Mrs. Meta Schunk, Marshfield; Mrs. Ella Padaries, Leonard Johnson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lindsley, Wheeler.