----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/ /1949

MRS. HERMAN DAMEROW

Greenwood--Mrs. Herman Damerow, 60, a resident of Greenwood, Clark County the past 28 years, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30, 1949 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been admitted March 18. She had been ill for a month and had undergone an operation March 25.

The time of the funeral has been set tentatively for Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. Walter Schedler, Withee, will be the officiating clergyman and interment will take place in the Braun Settlement Cemetery.

Mrs. Damerow, the former Selma Pearson, was born in Funk, Neb., Feb. 5, 1889, and was married at Cannon Falls, Minn., Jan. 6, 1921, to Herman Damerow of Greenwood. After their marriage they lived on a farm 8 miles northwest of Greenwood. Three years ago they retired and moved to the present Damerow home on Main Street in Greenwood.

Mrs. Damerow, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, is survived by her husband a sister, Mrs. Cora Swanson, Lincoln, Neb. and by two brothers, Nels Pearson, Expell, Neb., and Harold Pearson, Funk, Neb.