Obit: Bredesen, Mabel (1894 - 1971)

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Surnames: BREDESEN KEYES DUNN HARMS BUNDICK FERGUSON

----Source: Marshfield News Herald 9/ /1971

MRS. LEO BREDESEN (1894-1971)

GREENWOOD--Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Grace United Methodist Church here for Mrs. Leo (Mabel) Bredesen, 77, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died at 6:40 a.m. Saturday Sept. 4, 1971 at the Memorial Hospital, Neillsville, where she had been admitted five weeks ago following a stroke.

The Rev. Eugene S. Antrim, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home here beginning today (Tuesday) and after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

The former Mabel Keyes was born June 12, 1894, in Dunn County, and was married Feb. 10, 1915, to Leo Bredesen, who preceded her in death Feb. 25, 1964. The couple made their home in Greenwood, where he had been employed as a well driller for many years.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Merrill (Eileen) Dunn, Medford; Mrs. Marian Dunn and Mrs. Verna Harms, both of Owen; Mrs. Edward (Bonnie) Bundick, Anchorage, Alaska; and Mrs. Bernard (June) Ferguson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; 17 Grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.