Obit: Bakken, Florence (1887 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bakken, Schultz, Bertelsen, Gearing, Abend, Hantke, Meek

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 20, 1965

Bakken, Florence (24 December 1887 - 11 May 1965)

Funeral services were held in Black River Falls last Friday afternoon for Mrs. Florence Bakken, a sister of Mrs. Tony Hantke and Guy Schultz (of Dells Dam area) Neillsville, and Phillip Schultz of Merrillan.

Mrs. Bakken died May 11 in Madison, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. L. G. Bertelsen, following a long illness.  Her husband, Arne, died in December 1962.

Mrs. Bakken was born Florence Dells Schultz at Dells Dam on December 24, 1887.  She was the daughter of George and Mary Schultz, early settlers of the Dells Dam area.

She was married in Black River Falls on June 19, 1915, to Mr. Bakken, and they farmed for a number of years in the Black River Falls area. Later they operated a restaurant in Neillsville.

Pallbearers were nephews: Glen and Edson Gearing, Bernhard Abend, Douglas Hantke, Maynard Meek and Duane Schultz.

Burial was made in the Bakken family lot in Riverside Cemetery, Black River Falls.