Obit: Horn, William Albert (1877 - 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Horn, Braun, Tanner, Erzinger, Karston, Kraut, Boos, Cox, Cook, Lentz, Poppe, Geisler, Miller, Olson, Egbert

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) August 31, 1961

Horn, William Albert (7 July 1877 - 23 August 1961)

William Albert Horn, 84, died August 23, in Neillsville.  He had been a nursing home patient for 12 days.

Mr. Horn, son of Frank and Louisa (Braun) Horn was born in Sheboygan July 7, 1877.  He came to this area as a child of 10 months when his parents settled on a farm in the Braun Settlement.  He received his education there and was married to Emma Tanner Erzinger in Greenwood December 6, 1917.  The couple farmed in Warner until 1944, when they retired and moved to Greenwood.  Mrs. Horn died June 25, 1947. For the past four years Mr. Horn had made his home with his sister, Miss Martha Horn.

Besides his sister, Martha, he is survived by a step-son, Rudolph Erzinger, Monroe; and a brother, Frank Horn of Tacoma, Wash.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon from the Zion United Church. The Rev. Orval Egbert officiated and burial was made in the Forest Hill Cemetery at Braun Settlement.  Pallbearers were Theodore Braun, Otto, Hubert and Henry Horn, George Poppe and Adolph Geisler.

Miss Nettie miller sang, "In the Garden" and "Some Day He’ll make it plain" accompanied by Mrs. Daniel Olson.

People who attended included Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Erzinger of Monroe; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Karsten and the Misses Beverly and Bunee Kraut of Curtiss; Mrs. Ernest Boos of Abbotsford; Rev. and Mrs. Walter Horn of Minneapolis, Minn.; Miss Minnie Horn of Wrightown; Mrs. Donald Cox and William Cook of Chicago, Ill.; and Frank Lentz, of Brodhead.