Obit: Gass, Irene (1913 - 1958)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Gass, Hutchinson, Stai

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 02/06/1958

Gass, Irene (26 MAR 1913 - 30 JAN 1958)

Mrs. Lloyd Gass of Holcombe passed away suddenly at 12:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa falls where she had been a patient the past month.

Mrs. Gass was born Irene Hutchinson in Anson Township, Chippewa Co., Wis., on March 26, 1913, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Hutchinson.  She lived there until her marriage to Lloyd Gass in June 1940 when they moved to the Holcombe country where she has since resided.  The past several years she and her husband have operated the Holcombe Machinery and Livestock Exchange near Holcombe.

Surviving are her husband, Lloyd; two brothers, Irwin of Eagle Point and Glenn of Milwaukee, and one sister, Mrs. Wilfred (Alta) Stai of Chppewa Falls.  Her parents, two brothers and a sister preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held at 10 o’clock Monday morning, Feb. 3, at Holy Cross Church in Cornell.  Interment took place in the Holcombe Cemetery.