Obit: Vollrath, Anna Marie Herian (1860 - 1949)

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Surnames: VOLLRATH HERIAN FRESENBORG METCALF SPEICH GERLACH

----Source: Marshfield News Herald 11/2/1949

VOLLRATH RITES SET SATURDAY
 

Greenwood--Services for Mrs. Anna Vollrath, 89, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. She died at her home at 3 p.m. Tuesday of complications attributed to old age. Burial will be made in West Side cemetery, Warner, Clark County, WI the Rev. B. M. Fresenborg officiating.

The body will lie in state at the Stabnow Funeral Home from Thursday evening until the time of the services.

Mrs. Vollrath, the former Anna Marie Herian, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Putlitz, Bohemia. She came to the United States at the age of 17 and resided with her brother, Joseph Herian, Neillsville. On Dec. 1, 1883, she was married to William Vollrath at Neillsville. Afterwards the couple lived on a farm, 7 miles northwest of Greenwood, and 20 years ago they retired and moved into the city.

In 1933 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. While she lived on the she was a member of the Immanuel West Side Reformed Church and Ladies Aid Society and after moving to Greenwood her membership was transferred to Zion Church and its Ladies Aid Society.

Her husband died March 11, 1938. Surviving children include Margaret, Owen George, Mrs. James (Clara)Metcalf, Mrs. Jake (Ida) Speich, and Ernest, all of Greenwood Mrs. William (Emma) Gerlach, Neillsville Bernard, Ann Arbor, Mich and a stepson, Don Vollrath, Los Angeles, Calif.

There are 23 grandchildren. A daughter, Bertha, preceded her in death.