----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 12/ /1956

Franzmeier, Esther Rose (1804 - 1956)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Paul Franzmeier, 52, the former Esther Rose Humke of Greenwood, Clark County, died Monday morning, Dec. 11, 1956, at her home in Norwood, Minn., following a sudden seizure.

The body will be brought here for funeral services at 2 p.m. Thursday at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church, where Mrs. Franzmeier served as organist and as an officer of the Ladies Aid for several years. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Stabnow Funeral Home here beginning Wednesday evening. The Rev. Charles Koch will conduct the funeral rites.

Mrs. Franzmeier was born in Greenwood Sept. 3, 1904, and attended local schools. She was employed at the Indian School at Neillsville before her marriage Jan. 22, 1931, to the Rev. Mr. Franzmeier, then pastor of the local West Side Church.

They resided here for 12 years after their marriage, moving to New Aldin, Iowa in 1943 and to their present home in 1953.

Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Richard and Donald, both of Minneapolis her father, Theodore Humke, Greenwood four sisters, Mrs. Francis (Irene) Schweinler, Mosinee Mrs. Fred .(the rest of my copy was cut off)