----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 9/ /1971

ABEL RITES SET AT GREENWOOD

Greenwood--Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's Catholic Church here for Otto W. Abel, 69, Greenwood, Clark County, whose death of Sept. 17, 1971 was announce in Friday's News Herald.

The Rev. Leander Koopman, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home beginning Sunday noon. A general rosary service will be held there at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Mr. Abel was born Dec. 26, 1901, in the Town of Hendren, west of Greenwood, and was married Dec. 17, 1931 to Grace Herr, in Greenwood. The couple operated his father's farm for a year prior to moving to a farm 2 miles north of Greenwood. They resided there until 1940, when they moved into the city of Greenwood. Mr. Abel had been a carpenter by trade.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife three daughters, Mrs. Harry (Joan) Bujanowski and Mrs. Jerry (Donna) Peters, both of Wisconsin Rapids and Mrs. Richard (Yvonne) Rondorf, Greenwood Three sons, Harold Abel, Marengo, Ill. Lloyd Abel, Marshfield and Frank Abel, who is serving with the United States Marines in Colorado 17 grandchildren three sisters, Mrs. Carl (Laura) Laube, and Mrs. Adolph (Florine) Wendt, both of Owen and Mrs. Walter (Ella) Elmer, Milwaukee and a brother, Adolph Abel, Greenwood.

He was preceded in death by a son, Albert, and a twin brother in infancy.