----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1966

Kern, Lena (1874 - 1966)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. George Kern, 92, died of a heart attack at 5 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, 1966 in the Memorial Hospital at Neillsville.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood with the Rev. Arvid Myhrwold officiating. Burial will be made in the Riverside Cemetery at Withee.

The body will repose at the funeral home from Sunday afternoon until time of services.

The former Lena Sundemeyer was born in Germany on Aug. 29, 1874, and at the age of 5 years came with her parents to the United States. The family settled in Sheboygan and two years later moved to a farm northwest of Greenwood, Clark County.

Her marriage to George Kern, who preceded her in death Aug. 24, 1962, took place Jan. 22, 1896, at Greenwood. After their marriage, the couple made their home in the Greenwood area.

Survivors are five sons, George H., Marshfield Clarence, Georgetown, Minn.; William, address unknown; Theodore and Edward, Greenwood; four daughters, Miss Rose Kern, Greenwood; Mrs. Otto (Mabel) Moldenhauer, Mrs. Leonard (Hazel) Mueller, and Mrs. Violet Seroski, Chicago; a brother, William Sundemeyer, Groton, S.D.; three sisters, Mrs. Fred (Jennie) Clocksene, Groton, S.D.; Mrs. Minnie Glau, Seattle, Wash.; and Mrs. Marie Meinhardt, Greenwood; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, a sister and two granddaughters.