Obit: Decker, Otto (1871 - 1956)

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Surnames: DECKER MEIER SHORTESS PAWLYCYK WOLF FILLIPPO O'CONNELL KRAATZ GEISLER

----Source: Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1956

RITES THURSDAY FOR OTTO DECKER

SERVICES TO BE AT GREENWOOD CHURCH

Greenwood - Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church here for Otto Decker, 85, who died Monday, Oct. 29, 1956, at the Neillsville Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for a short time.

Friends may call at the Stabnow Funeral Home until noon Thursday, when the body will be taken to the church. The Rev. Charles Kock will officiate at the rites and interment will follow in the West Side cemetery.

Mr. Decker came to Greenwood, Clark County, at an early age with his parents from Sheboygan County, where he was born July 19, 1871. After his marriage to Lydia Meier Aug. 16, 1899, at the West Side Church, they farmed northwest of here. She died in 1936 and for the past 15 years, he had been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Shortess at Spencer. He was treasurer of the town of Warner for a number of years.

He is survived by 10 children, Mrs. J.R. (Dorothy) Shortess Mrs. John (Edna) Pawlacyk, Soquel, Calif. Mrs. Elmer (Eleanor) Wolf, Neenah Mrs. Harold (Elsie) Fillippo, Glen, Minn. Mrs. Leo (Leona) O'Connell, Rockford, Ill. Fred and Theodore, Greenwood Otto, Union, ill. Gilbert, Fountain City and Arthur, St. Paul. One child preceded him in death.

Other survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Louisa Kraatz, Fond du Lac, and Mrs. Ed (Amelia) Geisler, Cornell 27 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Five brothers and one sister are deceased.