----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 11/ /1946

MRS. FLORENTINE BEYER

Greenwood--Funeral rites will be conducted at the Stabnow Funeral Home here at 1:30 p.m. and at the Zion Reformed Church at 2 p.m. Sunday for Mrs. Florentine Beyer, 86, who died at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac at 12:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22, 1946.

The Rev. B. M. Fresenborg will have charge of the services and burial will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Funeral Home until the time of the rites.
Mrs. Beyer had been visiting relatives in southern Wisconsin this fall and became ill at Mayville in October, when she was taken to the Fond du Lac Hospital. She had suffered a stroke two days before her death.

Born Florentine Schwarze in Shawano on June 3, 1860, she was married to August Beyer in Dodge County more than 60 years ago. They lived on a farm 5 miles west of Greenwood, Clark County until 1915, when they moved into the city. Mr. Beyer died in 1929.

Surviving are five sons, Oscar, Ogden, Utah Emil, Casper, Wyo. Alex, Hartland, Wis.,  Benno, Milwaukee and Arnold, Greenwood as well as a brother, Herman, Mayville, and a sister, Mrs. Louisa Mueller, Milwaukee.

A son, Herman, died in 1939 and a daughter, Mrs. Max (Lena) Siegert, Milwaukee, died in May of this year.