----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/ /1949

GREENWOOD WOMAN DIES IN EAU CLAIRE
FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS. O.L. CARTERON TO BE CONDUCTED FRIDAY.

Greenwood--Mrs. O.L. Carteron, 72, died at Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, at 2:20 p.m. yesterday, Jan. 11, 1949. She fractured her hip Oct. 16 in a fall at her home and had been hospitalized since.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Schiller Funeral Home and at 2 p.m. at Grace Methodist Church. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery, the Rev. Lee Holmes officiating.

The body will lie in state at the funeral home beginning today until the time of the services.

Olive Best was born March 23, 1876 at Rutland. She received her education there and was married Sept. 13, 1896 to Olamp L. Carteron at Belleville, Dane County.

They made their home in Belleville, and then moved to the State of Iowa, where they lived for a year. They returned to Belleville and in 1914 moved to a farm north of Greenwood, Clark County.

After living there six years they moved to a farm south of Greenwood, living there for six years more. That farm is now occupied by their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Carteron.

In 1928 Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Carteron moved to Greenwood. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1946. Mr. Carteron died Dec. 28, 1946.

She is survived by four sons, Vivian, Eugene and Neale, all of Greenwood, and Lester, Vesper. A daughter, Eunice, preceded her in death, being killed in April 1934. Six grandchildren also survive.