Obit: Atkin, William L. (1875 - 1958)

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Surnames: Atkin, Wenzel, Smith, Gaupp, Cameron, Bewerse

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09/11/1958

Atkin, William L. (30 JUL 1875 - 5 SEP 1958)

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home here for William L. Atkin, 83, route 2, Nekoosa, who died Friday evening at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.  Rev. James Stone of the Alliance Church officiated at the final rites.  Musical selections were rendered by Rev. and Mrs. Stone, with Mrs. Duane Morschek at the organ.

Pallbearers were Wallace Wood, Lawrence Munson, John Brossow, Alex Bonk, Hjalmer Kangas and Stanley Zawadski.  In charge of the floral offerings were Misses Wood and Sorenson.

Rites were also held Sunday evening at the Feldner Funeral Home in Nekoosa.  Interment took place at Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

Mr. Atkin, a retired carpenter and farmer, was born July 30, 1875, in Sheboygan.  He moved to Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) in 1900, and to Nekoosa 15 years ago.

His first wife, the former Nellie Wenzel, Sheboygan County, died in 1932.  Two years later he married the former Johanna Wenzel at Withee.  She died in 1950.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Charles Smith and Mrs. Fred Gaupp, both of Wis. Rapids; a son, Harold Atkin, Nekoosa; a step-son, Milford Wenzel, Withee; two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Cameron and Mrs. Alfred Bewerse, Sheboygan; a brother, Ben Atkin, Sheboygan; and eight grandchildren.