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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1948

FUNERAL RITES SET FOR BERT WILCOX
GREENWOOD MAN, 81, DIES AT LUTHER HOSPITAL, EAU CLAIRE

Greenwood Bert Wilcox, 81, Greenwood, Clark County, died at the Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, Saturday, Oct. 16, 1948 at 1:15 p.m. He had been a surgical patient there for three weeks.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Grace Methodist Church and he will be buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. The Rev. Lee Holmes will officiate.

The body will lie in state beginning this afternoon at the Schiller Funeral Home.

Mr. Wilcox was born March 4, 1867 in Richmond, Ill., to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilcox. He was married Dec. 24, 1885 in Woodstock, Ill. To Hesper Bigelow.

He and his wife lived in Woodstock and in 1911 came to Clark County, where they settled on a farm near Tioga. They lived there for six years and in 1917 they moved to Greenwood, where they have since resided.

He once served as assessor in the Town of Hendren.

He is survived by his wife, five sons and three daughters. They are Clarence, Highland Walter, Denver, Colo. James, Randolph, N.Y. Clark, Delavan and Homer, Cattagagus, N.Y. The daughters are Mrs. Amil (Maud) Seimer, Elgin, Ill. Mrs. Forrest (Pearl) Chadwick, Conewango Valley, N.Y. and Mrs. Floyd (Helen) Christie, Owen. There are 36 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

He has two brothers, Clarence and Alfred Wilcox, both of Marengo, Ill.