----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; TRIBUNE-RECORD-GLEANER 8/ /1975

MRS. BESSIE M. WILLIAMS

Thorp--Mrs. Bessie M. Williams, 84, Route 1, Greenwood, Clark County, died at 8:10 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where she had been admitted Saturday afternoon. Death was attributed to an apparent heart attack.

Services will be held Thursday at the Thorp Funeral Home. The time of the funeral and visitations will be announced later. Officiating will be Murray Keene and Erling Ondal. Burial will follow in the Reeseburg Cemetery.

The former Bessie M. Thompson was born Dec. 29, 1890, in Shawano County and received her education in the Berlin, Wis. Schools. After her marriage to Rollin H. Williams on Dec. 31, 1913, at Omro, the couple lived in the Thorp area.

Following the death of her husband on Jan. 3, 1956, she had been making her home with her children and also at Stetsonville with Alma Dahl.

Survivors include three sons, Dewey J., Thorp, Roy, Adams, and Walter, Colorado Springs, Colo. five daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Emma) Kippenhan and Mrs. Donald (Nettie) Berthold, both of Greenwood, Miss Della Williams, Clayton, N.M., and Mrs. Dalton (Grace) Bartlett and Miss Hester Williams, both of Colorado Springs, Colo. two sisters, Mrs. Howard (Veda) Olp, Mauston, and Mrs. Willie (Ethel) Waltemate, Waukegan, Ill. 22 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Alvin, and a daughter, Eva, in infancy, and by another daughter, Mrs. Frank (Mildred) Briski.