Obit: Borham, Mrs. Paul Sr. (1893 - 1972)

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Surnames: BORHAM NEEDHAM BEHRENS

----Source: Marshfield News Herald 5/ /1972

MRS. PAUL BORHAM SR. (1893-1972)

GREENWOOD--Services were held at 2 p.m. today (Monday) at the Hill Funeral Home for Mrs. Paul Borham Sr., 78, formerly of Greenwood, Clark County, who had been residing with a son, Paul Borham Jr., and family, in Stevens Point. Mrs. Borham died at 11:33 p.m. Friday May 19, 1972 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.

The Rev. Eugene Antrim, pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.
The Hill Funeral Home of Greenwood was in charge of the arrangements.

The former Ada E. Needham was born July 29, 1893, in Cresco, Iowa, and was married April 28, 1911, in Galena, Ill., to Paul Borham, who preceded her in death in Aug. 1958. The couple had resided in Greenwood from 1916 until 1936. Her husband had been employed by the former C. E. Blodgett Cheese Company. They resided in Sullivan, Ind. For two years and from 1941 until 1957 they made their home in Fennimore, Stevens Point and Junction City.

She was a member of the Forest Queen Royal Neighbors Camp of Greenwood.

Survivors include two sons, Kenneth, Rothschild; and Paul Jr., Stevens Point; a daughter, Mrs. Karl (Katherine) Behrens, Franklin Park, Ill.; 13 grandchildren nine great-grandchildren and two brothers, Walter, Owen; and Orvile Neeham, Fennimore.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, two sisters and three brothers.