Obit: Artac, Michael #2 (1878 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Artac, Lusina, Igowski, Haug, Ruzic, Drinkwater, Martens, Merlak, Black, Werland, Adams, Schefchik, Nikolai

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) April 1, 1965

Artac, Michael (15 September 1878 - 26 March 1965)

Michael Artac, 86, of Willard, died at his home Friday after a lingering illness.

Funeral services were held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Hill Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. from the Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. The Rev. William Nikolai officiated.  Burial was made in the Holy Family Cemetery.

Mr. Artac was born September 15, 1878, in Yugoslavia.  He came to America in 1903, going to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he worked in the mines.  In 1905, he went to Waukegan, Ill., and came to Willard in 1910 and settled on a farm.  He retired from farming in 1949, and for the last 11 years had lived in Willard.  He married Johanna Lusina May 5, 1907, in Waukegan, Ill.

Survivors besides his wife include: two daughters; Mrs. Jennie (Igowski) Artac and Mrs. Ernest (Emily) Haug, both of Milwaukee; two sons, Frank of Greenwood and Ludwig of Willard; 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers, all grandsons, were: Norman and Carl (Igowski) Artac, Ernest, Jr., and Warren Haug, and Gary and Ivan, Jr., Ruzic.

People attending from out of town included: Mrs. Jennie (Igowski) Artac, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Haug, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Haug, Jr., Norman (Igowski) Artac, Mr. and Mrs. Carl (Igowski) Artac, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ruzic, Warren Haug, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Drinkwater and family and Miss Frances Artac, all of Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Martens of Milton; Mrs. Tony Merlak, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Merlak, Mrs. Marvetta Black of Sterling, Ill.; Mrs. Alice Werland of Canton, Ill.; Mrs. Frieda Adams of Eau Claire; Mrs. Charles Schefchik of Loyal.

Many friends and relatives from Willard, Loyal, Marshfield and the Greenwood areas also were present.