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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 2/ /1970

MARTIN KOKALY DIES WAS 58
 

Greenwood Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church at Willard for Martin L. Kokaly, 58, of Willard, Clark County, who died at 2:20 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, 1970 at St. Joseph's Hospital at Marshfield, where he was a patient since Feb. 16.

The Rev. Michael Mertens, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home beginning Sunday afternoon. The general rosary service will be held there at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Mr. Kokaly was born Sept. 2, 1911, and received his education in Willard Schools. A single man, he spent his entire life at Willard and was engaged in farming. He was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church.

Survivors include five sisters, Mrs. Dan (Sylvia) Boh, Mrs. Joseph (Mathilda) Hartwig and Miss Mary Kokaly, all of Willard Mrs. William (Ann) Boh, Greenwood Mrs. Anton (Carolyn) Feitl, LaGrange Park, Ill. and two brothers, Rudolph Kokaly, Thorp and Darwin Kokaly, Willard.

He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers.