Obit: Jelercic, Vincent #2 (1876 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Jelercic, Fabcic, Yurkovich, Raik, Booher

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 18, 1965

Jelercic, Vincent (22 January 1876 - 13 February 1965)

Vincent Jelercic, 89, of Willard, died at a hospital in Marshfield Saturday afternoon.  He was admitted to the hospital February 10 and had surgery.

Funeral services were conducted from the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood Tuesday at 2 p.m.  The Rev. Carl Booher of Grace Methodist Church officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Jelercic was born January 22, 1876, in Yugoslavia, coming to the United States November 11, 1903.  He married the former Mary Fabcic in Lorraine, O. January 7, 1908.  He and his wife came to Willard from Ohio in 1911.  He had lived on the farm presently operated by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Val Yurkovich, since that time.

He was a member of the Slovenian National Benefit Society.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Stanley (Mary) Raik of Greenwood and Mrs. Val (Sylvia) Yurkovich of Willard; and six grandchildren.