----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 4/17/1947

BEHRINGER FUNERAL SET FOR SATURDAY
GREENWOOD RESIDENT, 82, DIES WENDESDAY MORNING AT HOME OF SON

Greenwood--Jacob Behringer, 82, died of old age complications Wednesday morning, April 18, 1947 at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Behringer, 6 miles northeast of Greenwood, Clark County.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 o'clock at Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenwood, the Rev. George Heilman officiating. Six grandsons will serve as pallbearers and interment will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery. The body is lying in state at the Schiller Funeral Home.

Mr. Behringer was born in Manitowoc County July 31, 1864, and was and was married at Manitowoc Aug. 2, 1883, to Louisa Schmitz, who died in Dec. 1942.

He spent his early life in Manitowoc, where he operated a cheese and butter factory for 15 years. In 1907 he moved with his family to a farm, 6 miles northeast of Greenwood, where he since had lived, with the exception of 11 years in Loyal.

Survivors include two sons, Hugo, Marshfield, and Norman on the home farm and six daughters, Mrs. Caroline Groelle, Mrs. Clara Miller, and Mrs. Minnie Herman, all of Manitowoc Mrs. Flora Yandry, Beloit Mrs. Eva Vogel, Wisconsin Rapids and Mrs. Enanda Wetzel, Route 1, Owen. There are 22 grandchildren. A son, Clarence, died at the age of 39, in 1943.