Obit: Verschay, John Michael (1882 - 1968)
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: VERSCHAY DRAGOS MEYER JERAS ISAACSON GRAP ANDERSON

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06/ /1968

Verschay, John Michael (1882 - 1968)

GREENWOOD--John Michael Verschay, 86, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 1968, at his home in Greenwood.

Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Hill Funeral Home here, and at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church here. The Rev. Leander Koopman will officiate, and burial will be made in St. Mary's Cemetery.

The body will repose at the funeral home from Friday afternoon until the time of services. A general rosary service will be conducted there at 8 p.m. Friday.

Mr. Verschay was born May 20, 1882, in Austria. His marriage to Anna Barbara Dragos took place Aug. 23, 1905, at Calumet, Mich.

After their marriage, the couple lived at Calumet, Mich., until 1914, when they came to Clark County and settled on a farm in the Willard area. They retired from farming in 1949, and moved to Greenwood.

Mr. Verschay was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Greenwood.

In addition to his wife, survivors are two sons, John T. Verschay, Willard and Joseph W. Verschay, Greenwood five daughters, Mrs. Paul (Ann) Meyer, Minocqua Mrs. Val (Marie) Jeras, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Henry (Jean) Isaacson, Neillsville Mrs. Erwin (Kay) Grap, Greenwood and Mrs. Cecil (Christine) Anderson, Kansas City, Mo. nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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Bio: Issacson, Henry V. "Bing" (1940 - )

Contact: janet@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Verchay

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner, 12 Jan 1961
 

Henry V. "Bing" Issacson

Henry V. "Bing" Issacson, 21, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Verschay Sr., recently graduated from the University of Illinois, with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry. He was a member of Theta XI Faternity. He is employed by Sinclair Research Laboratories Inc., Harvey, Ill.

"Bing" spent many summer vacations with his grandparents and other relatives, and had many friends her.