Obit: Austin, Mabel (1878 - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Austin, Stevens, Welch, Schmidtke, Erickson, Gourlie, Knickel, Turner, Fait, Guensborg, Garbisch, Nichols

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 23, 1964

Austin, Mabel (12 February 1878 - 19 July 1964)

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton for Mrs. Mabel Austin, 86, who died Sunday in Neillsville. The Rev. Oscar Nichols of the Methodist Church officiated.  Burial was made in the Windfall Cemetery.

Mrs. Austin, the former Mabel Stevens, was born February 12, 1878, in the Town of Sherman. She attended Griffith School and Loyal High School.  She was married in 1898 to the former Anson Welch, who preceded her in death.  On November 4, 1928, she was married to Ray Austin, in Rockford, Ill.  He died in 1942.

Mrs. Austin lived in Spencer for a number of years, going to Rockford in 1922. She returned to Granton in 1956. Since October 1963, she had been a resident of Memorial Home in Neillsville.

She was a member of the Methodist Church and of its Ladies Aid.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. William (Esther) Schmidtke of Granton and Mrs. Eskil (Arlene) Erickson of Rockford, Ill., and a son, Rollo Welch of Dover, Tenn.  Other survivors are eight grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Verna Gourlie of Plant City, Fla., and Mrs. E. H. (Olive) Knickel of Marinette.

Pallbearers were Gene Turner, Duane Welch, Jerry Welch, Stanley Fait, jerry Guensborg and Orman Welch.

Mrs. Leland Garbisch was the organist.