Obit: Berrett, Ethel (1919 - 2011)

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Surnames: Berrett, Krokson, Solum, Kintzler

----Source: The Loyal TRG (Loyal, Clark County, WI o4 Jan 2012)

Berrett, Ethel (02 JUN 1919-29 DEC 2011)

Ethel F. Berrett, 92, Greenwood, died on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at the Clark County Health Care Center, Owen. Funeral services were held t 11 a.m., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, at Missionary Baptist Church, Greenwood,. Rev. Rob Love officiated. Burial followed in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Ethel Frances Krokson was born on June 2, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minn., the daughter of Ernest and Hannah (nee Solum)

 Krokxon.  She was raised on a farm northeast of Greenwood, received her elementary education at Hemlock School, and graduated from Greenwood High School in 1936. She married Roland James Berrett on Feb. 4, 1937, in Neillsville. They took over the operation of her parent’s farm, where she was a homemaker and farm wife until 1959. They moved to Granton for a few years and then to Rhinelander in 1964. After her husband retired in 1979, they moved back to Greenwood. She was a member of Missionary Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School for many years.

Ethel will be dearly missed by her husband, Roland, Owen; three children, Beverly Kintzler, Thorp, Allen (Carolyn) Berrett, Plover, and Shelby Berrett, Neilsville; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; two nieces; two nephews; and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Carol Kintzler; and one sister, Helen Sack.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, assisted the family with arrangements.