Obit:

Wells, Elsie A. (1897 - 1973)

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WELLS DUX FRISKE BROWN

 

----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/ /1973

 

MRS. ADELBERT WELLS, 75


GREENWOOD Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenwood for Mrs. Adelbert Wells, 75, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1973 at her home, following an apparent heart attack.


The Rev. Arthur F. Hellert, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery.


Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood Thursday afternoon and until 11 a.m., Friday, when the body will be taken to the church.


The former Elsie A. Dux was born Aug. 7, 1897 at Neillsville, and received her education at St. John's Lutheran School at Neillsville and was a graduate of Neillsville High School. Following her marriage to Adelbert Wells Sept. 20, 1917, at Neillsville, they farmed in an area three miles northeast of Greenwood. In 1962 they retired from farming and moved into the city of Greenwood. Mr. Wells preceded his wife in death Jan. 27, 1964.


She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aid and the American Legion Auxiliary.


Survivors include two sons, Donald, Greenwood and Burton R. Marshfield and two daughters, Mrs. Norbert (Adella) Friske, Greenwood and Mrs. Norman (Marguarite) Friske, Whitehall eight grandchildren six great-grandchildren two brothers, William C. Dux and Alfred Dux, both of Neillsville, and a sister, Mrs. Martha Brown (the rest was cut off)

 

 


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