----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 9/ /1956

HUMKE RITES TO BE ON THURSDAY--GREENWOOD PIONEER WAS 97 YEARS OLD

 Anna Kippenhan

Greenwood--Funeral services will be held here Thursday for Mrs. Henry Humke, 97 year old pioneer, who died Sunday, Sept. 16, 1956, at the family homestead, 4 miles northwest of here, where she had resided for the past 77 years.

The services have been scheduled for 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will follow in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Stabnow Funeral Home here from Wednesday noon until Thursday noon, when the body will be taken to the church.

The former Anna Kippenhan was born in Kohlsville, Washington county, Aug. 6, 1859, and was married Nov. 18, 1879, at Kewaskum. She and Mr. Humke, who died in 1936 at the age of 81, arrived in Clark county in 1879. Their son, Goerge, who now operates the farm which they began and where they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1929. Mrs. Humke was an active member of the Ladies Aid Society of the West Side Church.

Survivvors include four daughters and three sons, Mrs. Meda Decker, Mrs. Ella Schwarze and Mrs. William (Alma) Steiger, Greenwood, Mrs. Helena Rossman, Spokane, Washington, Theodore, Arthura and George, Greenwood, 27 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. One son, Edward, preceded her in death.