----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 8/18/1970

FORMER AREA RESIDENT DIES

Greenwood--Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church for a former Greenwood, Clark County resident, Valentine J. Jeras, 67, of Kansas City, Mo., who died unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack Saturday, Aug. 15, 1970 at his home.

The Rev. Leander Koopman, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home where the general rosary service will be held at 8:30 p.m. today (Tuesday).

Mr. Jeras was born Oct. 10, 1902, in Bormund, Germany, and came to the United States with his parents at the age of seven. The family settled in Springfield, Ill., and had lived there until 1915, when they moved to Willard.