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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 7/ /1949

MRS. LAURENCE THOMLEY

Greenwood Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Grace Methodist Church, Greenwood, for Mrs. Laurence Thomley, 43, of 428 Linden Street, Fond du Lac, a former resident of Greenwood, Clark County, who died Saturday noon, July 2, 1949 at St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac.

The pastor of the Methodist Church in Fond du Lac, assisted by the local Methodist pastor, the Rev. Lee H. Holmes, were in charge of the rites, after which interment took place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Thomley, the former Charlotte McCarty, was born in Longwood Dec. 31, 1905, and attended schools there. She was graduated from Greenwood High School in 1924 and from Central State Teachers College, after which she taught home economics for several years before her marriage to Laurence Thomley.

Charlotte McCarty was born on what is now the Adolph Jackson farm and later the McCarty family lived across the road from her brithplace, 7 miles north of Greenwood.

Surviving besides her husband are two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Howard (Violet) Farewell and Miss Elizabeth McCarty, Saginaw, Mich. and Allan and Justin McCarty, both of Fond du Lac. Her mother, Mrs. Jessie McCarty, lives in Saginaw.

Preceding her in death were a brother, Vernon, and her father, Almond McCarty.

Pallbearers were Edgar and Adolph Wendt and Arthur Swenson, all of Longwood, and Adolph and Einer Jackson and Calvin Franz, Greenwood. In the Garden and Going Home were sung by Howard Seybold, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Don Warner.