Obit: Volk, Anna (1868 - 1963)

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Surnames: VOLK GALMBACHER BARNES

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 05/21/1963

Volk, Anna (1868 - 1963)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Anna Volk, 94, Greenwood, Clark County, died Sunday, May 26, 1963, at 6:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been a patient for the past 21 months.

Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The Rev. Edward Hartung will officiate. Burial will be made in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home beginning Tuesday. The general rosary will be conducted at 8 o'clock that evening.

The former Anna Galmbacher was born Nov. 13, 1868, in Buffalo, N.Y., and was married Nov. 23, 1891, to Jacob Volk in Milwaukee. As a child, she came with her parents to Mishicott. She was employed in Milwaukee before her marriage.

After their marriage, the Volks lived in Marshfield for a short time. In 1892, the couple moved to Greenwood, where Mr. Volk operated a tailor shop. After the death of Mr. Volk on Feb. 28, 1912, she made her home with her daughter, the late Mrs. R. L. (Dorothy) Barnes, until when was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield on Aug. 7, 1961.

Mrs. Volk was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, its St. Ann's Society and the Forest Queen Royal Neighbor Camp.

Survivors include two sons, Floyd, Bellevue, Wash. and Perry, Loyal five granddaughters and 11 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Alonzo, who died April 19, 1939 two daughters, one in infancy and Mrs. Dorothy Barnes, who died Oct. 22, 1961 a brother and a sister.