----Source: Greenwood Gleaner, Dec. 11, 1956

GREENWOOD RESIDENT DEAD

Mrs. Franzmeier, 52, Stricken Suddenly

Mrs. Paul Franzmeier, 52, the former Esther Rose Humke of Greenwood, died Monday morning at her home in Norwood, Minn., following a sudden seizure.
The body will be brought here for funeral services at 2 p.m. Thursday in the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church, where Mrs. Franzmeier served as organist and as an officer of the Ladies Aid for several years. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Stabnow Funeral Home here beginning Wednesday evening. The Rev. Charles Koch will conduct the final rites.
Mrs. Franzmeier was born in Greenwood, September 3, 1904 and attended local schools. She was employed at the Indian School at Neillsville, before her marriage Jan. 22, 1931, to the Rev. Mr. Franzmeier, then pastor of the local West Side Church.

They resided here for 12 years after their marriage, moving to New Alcin, Iowa, in 1943 and to their present home in 1953.

Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Richard and Donald, both of Minneapolis, her father, Theodore Humke. Greenwood; four sisters Irene Schweinler, Rose Timmler, Cora Slock and Vera Stafford.

Mrs. Paul Franzmeier

Surname: FRANZMEIER, BUERICHTER, ELMER, HUMKE, DECKER, ALBERTS, SCHWARZE, STEIGER, KOCH

From the Greenwood Gleaner and from the scrapbook of Mrs. Andrews, former librarian of the Greenwood Public Library

 
FRANZMEIER RITES HELD - December 1956

Services for Mrs. Paul Franzmeier 52, were conducted Thursday afternoon at the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church here. Ofiiciants were the Res. Charles Koch, local pastor and the Rev. Buerichter, New Albin, Iowa.

The Men's Chorus of the church sang "Abide With Me" and "Jesus is Calling" with the organ accompaniment provide by Mrs. Alvin Alberts. Pallbearers were Paul Elmer, Mr. Humke, Walter Decker, Walter Schwarze and Kenneth Steiger. Burial was in the West Side Cemetery.

Mrs. Franzmeier, the former Rose Humke, who has been residing in Norwood, Minn., died of a lingering illness Dec. 10 at a Wacoma, Minn. hospital. She was born in the town of Warner in Clark County Sept 3, 1904. Out of town relatives and friends came from New Albin, Iowa and California.