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

Henchen, Clarence Florentine (1899 - 1968)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Clarence Florentine Henchen, 68, Greenwood, died at 1:44 p.m. Sunday, June 23, 1968 at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, where he had been a patient since June 4.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church here with the Rev. LeRoy Urman officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home here from Tuesday afternoon until 11 a.m. Wednesday, and then at the church.

Mr. Henchen was born Nov. 6, 1899, in the Town of Weston, Clark County. His marriage to Agnes Minsaas took place Nov. 10, 1923, at the Lutheran Church parsonage in Globe.

After their marriage, the couple farmed in the Town of Globe until 1949, then continued to live in the area until 1965, when they moved to a home northwest of Greenwood.

In addition to his wife, survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Andrew (Clarabelle) Djubenski and Mrs. Victor (Doris) Diercks, both of Greenwood five sons, Robert, Greenwood; Arthur, Marshfield; Clarence Jr., Loyal; Delmond and Ronald, at home; three sisters, Miss Clara Henchen, Neillsville; Mrs. John (Frieda) Marten, Humbird; and Mrs. Joseph (Elsie) Turenne, Thorp; two brothers, Arnold, Neillsville; and Erwin, Princeton, Minn.; and 14 grandchildren.

A brother, Ewald, preceded him in death.