Obit: Lindquist, Edward A. (1898 - 1962)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lindquist, Nielsen, Hutchinson, Lindow, Haslow, Spry, Kapfer, Ziemendorf, McCormick

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) August 16, 1962

Lindquist, Edward A. (September 1898 - 9 August 1962)

Funeral services for Edward A. Lindquist, 63, Rt. 2, Granton, were held Tuesday from the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Chili. The Rev. L. L. McCormick officiated and burial was made in the Sherwood Cemetery.  Mr. Lindquist’s body was found Friday morning at his farm home in Sherwood, where he had lived alone since the death of his wife last February.  Death is believed to have occurred on Thursday.

His body was found in bed in his home in the Town of Sherwood, Clark County on Friday morning by neighbors after a milk hauler reported that there was no milk from the previous night, or that morning.

Mr. Lindquist was born in September, 1898, in Nebraska and had farmed in the Sherwood area for the past 25 years.  He was clerk of the Town of Sherwood for many years.  His wife was the former Emma Neilsen a former rural school teacher.

He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Norma Hutchinson of Omaha, Nebr.; two grandchildren; brothers and sisters.

Pallbearers were William Lindow, Vernon Lindow, Irvin Haslow, Phelps Spry, Elmer Kapfer and Mr. Ziemendorf.

Funeral arrangements were made by the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton.