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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 6/ /1948

MRS. A. B. DYRE, 75, DIES ON SATURDAY
SERVICES FOR GREENWOOD RESIDENT TO BE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY

Greenwood--Mrs. A.B. Dyre, 75, who for the past several years had been making her home in Loyal with her son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. And Mrs. Hugo Stutte, Loyal, Clark County, died Saturday afternoon, June 19, 1948 at 2:15 o'clock at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she was a patient since June 12. She had suffered a stroke Friday and had been in poor health for several years.

The body will lie in state at the Schiller Funeral Home until Wednesday morning, when it will be taken to the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dyre, Greenwood. A short service will be held at the Kenneth Dyre home before the 2 o'clock church service Wednesday afternoon at Trondhjem Lutheran Church. The Rev. Theodore Nelson will officiate at the rites and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Dyre, the former Eileen Engelbretsen, was born in Norway March 25, 1873. Her husband, the Rev. A. B. Dyre, died in 1933.

Surviving are eight children, Kenneth, Greenwood Joel and Edgar, both of Racine Emil, Dakota Oscar, Detroit Lakes, Minn. Mrs. Hubert (Florence) Stutte, Loyal and Alice and Alma, both of Minneapolis. Two sons, Henry and Owen, and a daughter, Belinda, preceded her in death.