----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/ /1970

MRS. ANTON TRUNKEL

Greenwood--Mrs. Anton (Anna) Trunkel, 87, of Willard, Clark County, died at 6:10 a.m. Sunday, Mar. 1, 1970 at the Neillsville Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient since Feb. 25.

Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Hill Funeral Home at Greenwood and at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church at Willard. 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 Tuesday afternoon. The general rosary service will be held there at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

The former Anna Stalzer was born in Yugoslavia July 6, 1882, and came to the United States in 1906. She was married in 1907 at Joliet, Ill. To Anton Trunkel, who died Aug. 25, 1969.

After their marriage the couple moved to a farm at Willard, which they operated until 1945, when they retired and moved into the village of Willard.

She was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church and the American Slovenia Catholic Union Lodge.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John (Ann) Snedic, Greenwood three sons, Tony, John F. and Edward Trunkel, all of Willard 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by a daughter and a brother.