----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 01/ /1953

Augusta (Decker) Franz
Provided by Gary Decker

Franz, Augusta (1879 - 1953)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Franz, 74, a lifelong resident of this area who died at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, 1953 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bolf, and at 2 p.m. in the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church.

The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

Mrs. Franz had been a patient at the hospital for 10 days, and had been in poor health since an operation last June.

The body is reposing at the Schiller Funeral Home. This evening it will be taken to the Bolf home.

Mrs. Franz, the former Augusta Decker, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Decker, was born in Greenwood Nov. 4, 1879. Her marriage to Henry Franz took place April 13, 1898, in the West Side Church, where she was also confirmed. They operated a farm 4 miles northwest of the city until they retired seven years ago. Since that time they had made their home with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bolf. Mr. Franz died in 1949.

She is survived by five sons, Emil, Montana Theodore, McMinnville, Ore., and Oscar, Edwin and Leondo, Greenwood five daughters, Mrs. Harvey (Martha) Schwarze, Mrs. Henry (Minnie) Laube, and Mrs. Dave (Selma) Churkey, Owen, Mrs. Theodore (Arvilla) Wessel, and Mrs. Mike (Meta) Bolf, Greenwood 19 grandchildren nine great-grandchildren and a brother, Alfred Decker, Coeur d Alene, Idaho.

Three sisters and five brothers also preceded her in death.