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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/ /1948

MRS. RUTH WILTSEY DIES IN MILWAUKEE
FORMER RESIDENT OF GREENWOOD TO BE BURIED AT SERVICES MONDAY

Greenwood Funeral rites will be held Monday afternoon in Greenwood for Mrs. Ruth Wiltsey, 56, a former resident of Greenwood, Clark County, who died Jan. 1, 1948 in Milwaukee. Her death was sudden, although she had undergone an operation recently.

The body is lying in state at the Stabnow Funeral Home and the services are scheduled for 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at Zion Reformed Church, Greenwood, of which she was a member while a resident of Greenwood. The Rev. B. M. Fresenborg will conduct the rites and interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Wiltsey, nee Loos, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. George Loos, was born Aug. 14, 1891 in Mt. Hope, Mich., and came to Greenwood with her parents in the fall of 1911.

She was graduated from Milwaukee Normal School and taught school at Frederick and Stratford in South Dakota and at Globe and Owen in Wisconsin. She also was employed as clerk in the Farmers Store of Greenwood for several years. Two years ago she went to Milwaukee to live with her daughter, Mrs. Gladys Horgen, and granddaughter, Carol Horgen, at 2343 N. 65th Street.

She was a member, a former president, and also held other offices in the Ladies Aid Society of Zion Reformed Church in Greenwood, and also was a member of the Greenwood Woman's Club here.

Surviving besides her daughter and granddaughter are two brothers, Roland Loos, Abbotsford, and Alfred Loos, Dallas, Texas. Her father died in 1912, her mother in 1931, two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Kessel and Miss Emma Loos, also in 1912, and another sister, Mrs. Laura Krokus, in 1926.