Obit: Hendrickson, Emilja #2 (1883 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hendrickson, Schmidt

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 02/01/1962

Hendrickson, Emilja #2 (5 MAY 1883 - 27 JAN 1962)

*Note - Her name is spelled Enilda on the obtiuary

Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at Bethany Lutheran Church for Mrs. Emilja Hendrickson, 78, who died at 8:00 p.m. Saturday at the Havenet Nursing Home.  The Rev. Carl Wilkman officiated and burial was made in Riverside Cemetery at Withee.

Mrs. Hendrickson was born May 5, 1883 in Finland.  She came to the United States about 1900 and settled in Michigan.  She was married there in 1904 to Charles Hendrickson, who died in 1947.  In 1914 they moved to the town of Hixon and in 1944 to Withee (Clark Co., Wis.).  In 1960 she moved to the Havenet Nursing Home.  Mrs. Hendrickson was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Schmidt, Chicago; three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by a daughter.