Obit: Merlak, Frank (1872 - 1961)

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Surnames: Merlak, Macnovee, Kosic, Buenman, Gephart, Sternichuk, Nagle, Opp, Hartung

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 26, 1961

Merlak, Frank (4 October 1872 - 23 October 1961)

Funeral services will be held from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenwood at 10:30 a.m. Friday for Frank Merlak, 89, of Greenwood, who died at 1:15 Monday in a Marshfield hospital.  He had been a patient since Saturday, when he suffered a heart attack.

The Rev. Edward Hartung of St. Mary’s will be in charge of the service, and burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

Mr. Merlak was born October 4, 1872, in Yugoslavia.  He came to the United States in 1898 and settled in Waukegan, Ill., where he worked in a wire mill.

In 1904 her was married to Johanna Macnovee in Waukegan, and shortly afterward they moved to (city name is blotched), Ill.  In 1917 the family moved to Greenwood, where they settled on a farm 4 ½ miles southwest of the city.  He retired in 1959.

Surviving in addition to his wife; are: two sons, John of Waukegan and Mathew of Loyal; six daughters, Mrs. Frank (Mathilda) Kosic and Mrs. Harry (Agnes) Buenman, both of (ink blotch), Mrs. Paul (Mary) Gephart of Fort Wayne, Ind., Mrs. Carl (Anna) Sternichuk of Waukegan, Mrs. Philip (Jennie) Nagle of Glendale, Calif., and Mrs. Arthur (Frances) Opp of Helena, Mont.; a brother, Lawrence, and a sister, Frances, in Yugoslavia; thirty grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.