Obit: Schwarze, Bethel (1889 - 1968)

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Surnames: SCHWARZE BARKLEY

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 11/ /1968

GREENWOOD--Schwarze, Bethel (1889 - 1968)

Mrs. Bethel Bliss Barkley Schwarze, 79, Greenwood, Clark County, died Thursday evening, Nov. 21, 1968, at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville. She had resided at the home since Sept. of this year, and suffered a stroke Nov. 15.

Services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood. The Rev. Carl Booher, pastor of the Grace United Methodist Church will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.  Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home beginning at 7 p.m. today (Friday).

The former Bethel Barkley was born Sept. 3, 1889, at Sandusky, Sauk Co., Wis., and came to Greenwood with her parents as a small child. She was married at Greenwood in 1910 to Dr. Herman R. Schwarze, who preceded her in death in Oct. 1933. The couple lived in East St. Louis and at Champaign, Ill. After the death of her husband she returned to Greenwood, where she lived until September of this year, when she moved to the Memorial Home in Neillsville.

Mrs. Schwarze had no immediate family, except for cousins out of the state.