----Source: Marshfield News Herald 1/ /1973

FRANK PLAUTZ, 63

Willard - Frank Plautz, 63, Willard, Clark County, died of pneumonia at 11 p.m. Tuesday Jan. 23, 1973, at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville where he had been admitted that morning.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard, and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. The Rev. Michael Mertens, pastor, will officiate.

Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood Thursday from 3:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m., when the body will be taken to the church for a rosary service.

Mr. Plautz was born on May 4, 1909, in Willard and was educated in the Willard schools. He had been a heavy equipment operator for Plautz Bros., and later farmed east of Willard. He had been ill with multiple sclerosis since 1956 and had been a resident of the Memorial Home in Neillsville since Nov. 11, 1964.

He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard.

Survivors include five brothers, Stephen, John and Joseph Plautz, all of Willard, George Plautz, Greenwood, and Emil Plautz, Owen six sisters, Mrs. Raymond (Angeline) Levesque, Orlando, Fla., Mrs. Leslie (Mary) Burmeister, Mrs. Frank (Ann) Svigelo and Mrs. Sophie Matkovich, all of Millwaukee, Mrs. Frank (Rose) Pakiz, Greenwood, and Mrs. Leo (Helen) Albright, Wausau.

Preceding him in death was a brother, Michael.