Obit: Alexander, Birdene #2 (1882 - 1962)

 

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Surnames: Alexander, Ball, Lauge, Mellin, Ward

 

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 11/29/1962

 

Alexander, Birdene #2 (24 OCT 1882 - 25 NOV 1962)

 

Funeral services for Mrs. Birdene Alexander, 80, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), who died Sunday at Waterford were conducted Wednesday at the Hoper and Kraut Funeral Home.  The Rev. Ralph Claybaugh officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

 

The former Birdene Ball was born Oct. 24, 1882, in Bloomington and was married there on Dec. 31, 1901, to Ernest Alexander, who died on April 1, 1956.  She had lived on a farm in the town of Green Grove, near Owen, since 1923.

 

She is survived by five sons, Floyd, Richland Center; Cecil, Roscoe and Walter, Owen, and Elos, Unity; two daughters, Mrs. Art (Leora) Lauge, Waterford, and Mrs. Jay (Esther) Mellin, Wauzeka; 19 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Ward, Patch Grove; and a brother, Clarence Ball, Bloomington.

 

Pallbearers were Julius Lange, Robert Lange, Charles Witte, Elmer Elstrom, Eddie Karpinski and Henry Scheel.

  

 

 


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