Obit: Sparks, Helen (1899 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sparks, Fields, Todd, Adams

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 9, 1963

Sparks, Helen (31 May 1899 - 4 May 1963)

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon form the Sherwood Community Church for Miss Helen Sparks, 63, of Rt. 1, Pittsville, who died Saturday of a heart condition. Roger Adams of Black River Falls officiated and burial was made in the Sherwood Cemetery.

Miss Sparks a retired teacher was born May 31, 1899, in Sherwood and spent her entire life in that area. She attended schools there and was a graduate of the Wood County Normal School in Wisconsin Rapids. She taught for 35 years, six of them in Dane County and the remainder in Clark County.

She had made her home with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Fields, and had her own home, a short distance from the Fields’.

Miss Sparks is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Rueben (Hattie) Fields of Pittsville, and Mrs. Andrew (Edith) Todd of Granton; and by a brother, Daniel Sparks of Owen.