----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 01/ /1962

Schmidt, Vivian (1899 - 1962)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Carl Schmidt, 62, Middleton, died at 5 a.m. Monday, Jan. 29, 1962, at the University Hospital in Madison. She had been in ill health for several years.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Myre Funeral Home, where the body is reposing. The Rev. Paul Doering, Pastor of Loyal Methodist Church will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The former Vivian Severson was born April 11, 1899 in the Town of Warner, Clark County. She was married Nov. 3, 1923 to Carl Schmidt. They lived in the Clark County area until 1941, when the family moved to Bennett. In 1958 they moved to Middleton.

She is survived by her husband three sons, Herbert, Superior Elwood and James, Middleton four daughters, Mrs. Garth (Lorraine) Luchterland, Loyal Mrs. Theodore, (Doris) Sannwald, Superior Mrs. Richard (Shirley) Bertrang, Waunekee, and Miss Phyllis Schmidt, Middleton eight grandchildren two brothers, Claud and Hugh Severson, Greenwood eight sisters, Mrs. Ernst (Dorothy) Molle and Mrs. Lester (Gertrude) Schuette, Unity Mrs. Vernal (Mable) Bold, McClusky, N.D. Mrs. Paul (Bertha) Brandt, Franksville and Mrs. Tom (Marion) Ozanich, Mrs. Abe (Grace) Lunz, Mrs. Harry (Lieda ) Kurtzheim and Miss Ann Severson, Milwaukee.