----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1959

Steffen, Ann Margaret (1916 - 1959)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Gerald Steffen, 42, died unexpectedly at her home in the Town of Warner, Clark County at 6 a.m.. Thursday, Oct. 2, 1959.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10:30 a.m. in St. Mary's Catholic Church. The Rev. Edward Hartung will officiate and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. The Wallis-Hinker Legion Post will conduct military rites.

Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home beginning Saturday afternoon until the time of services. A rosary will be said there at 8 p.m. Sunday.

The former Ann Margaret Tomac was born at Greenwood Nov. 15, 1916. She was graduated from Greenwood High School in 1935 and from St. Luke's School of Nursing in Chicago, Ill., in 1943. She then did industrial nursing in Chicago.

During World War II she served with the Navy Nurses Corp. as an ensign. She enlisted in Jan. 1944, and was stationed at Camp Shoemaker, Calif., for 10 months and at Astoria, Ore., for 21 months. She received her discharge in August 1946. On Oct. 26, 1947 she was married at Greenwood to Gerald Steffen, who survives her.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and St. Ann's Altar Society, and of the Hemlock Aid.

Surviving are one daughter, Paulette, 12 four sons, James. 11, Charles, 9 Allen, 8 and Eugene, 5 five sisters, Mrs. Edward (Mary) Maas and Mrs. John D. (Katherine) Speich, both of Greenwood Mrs. Edmund (Christina) Hemmersbach, Newark, Ill. Mrs. Robert (Dede) Nerbun, Ladysmith Miss Margaret Perman, Menomonie two brothers, Joseph Tomac, Greenwood Victor Perman, St. Paul, Minn. and her mother, Mrs. Julia (Ozbolt) Perman, Greenwood.