----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1947

BEECHER FUNERAL SET FOR THURSDAY
GREENWOOD WOMAN DIES AT HOME OF SISTERS, BROTHER IN MARSHFIELD

Greenwood--Mrs. William Beecher, 67, Greenwood, Clark County, died Monday, Oct. 13, 1947 at 5:30 p.m. at the home of Cora, Laura, Ella, and Lynn Kocher, 1803 E. Fourth Street, Marshfield, her three sisters and a brother, where she had been the past two weeks.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Schiller Funeral Home in Greenwood and burial will be made there. A Christian Science reader from Neillsville will conduct the service.

Mrs. Beecher, the former Minnie Kocher, was born Jan. 24, 1880 at West Bend and is survived by her husband a daughter, Mrs. Emil (Dorothy) Schwarze, Greenwood a granddaughter, Kay and the following brothers and sisters: Fred Kocher, Greenwood Mrs. Jack (Carrie) Cooper, Milwaukee and Mrs. Rose Voight and Cora, Laura, Ella, and Lynn Kocher, all of Marshfield. Another brother, George, died in July, 1941. Her mother died in 1920 and her father in 1921.