Obit: Greely, Barbara Rose (? - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Greely, Seidelman, Myers, Wattenbarger, McConaghy, Dixon, Gregory, Anderegg

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 1, 1964

Greely, Barbara Rose (? - 21 August 1964)

Word has been received here of the death August 21 of Barbara Rose Greely, 85, in Hoquiam, Wash., after a brief illness. She was a former Loyal resident.

Born in Bavaria, Germany, she came to the United States with her parents while still an infant, and lived in Wisconsin. She married Merrit Greely October 16, 1900, and the couple moved to North Dakota in 1913. They moved to Hoquiam in 1918.  Mr. Greely died in 1939.

Mrs. Greely was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Hoquiam and the American Legion Auxiliary. She was a charter member of Hoquiam chapter 400, Moose Mothers.

Surviving are five daughters: Mrs. Frank O. (Esther) Myers of Portland, Ore., Mrs. O. B. (Laura) Wattenbarger of Jefferson, Ore., Mrs. Charles (Sue) McConaghy, Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Henry (Florence) Dixon, and Mrs. Charles (Louise) Gregory, both of Hoquiam; two sons, P. A. Greely of Aberdeen, and Paul A. Greely of Olympia; a brother, John Seidelmann of Tacoma; eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Mrs. Jake Anderegg of Loyal; and three brothers, William Seidelmann of Loyal; Mike Seidelmann of Chippewa Falls, and Henry Seidelmann of Neillsville.