----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 7/ /1961

RITES ARE SET FOR KURT ACKER
FORMER GREENWOOD AREA RESIDENT DIES

Greenwood--Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zion United Church of Christ for Kurt Acker of Olympia, Wash., who died Thursday July 20, 1961 at the Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Wash. He was 66 years of age. The Rev. Orval Egbert will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery where military rites will be conducted by the Wallis-Hinker American Legion Post.

The body will arrive in Greenwood early Wednesday morning and fiends may call at the Hill Funeral Home until 11 a.m., when it will be taken to the church.

Mr. Acker was born near Milwaukee June 24, 1895. He came to Greenwood, Clark County area as a small child with his parents, who operated a farm. He received his education in the Greenwood and area schools and attended the La Crosse Business College. Before leaving 12 years ago for Washington, where he was employed by the state, Mr. Acker work for the Northern State Power Company at Eau Claire and the Clark County Welfare Department, Neillsville. He was unmarried.

He served overseas with the Army for two years and was a member of the Congregational Church.