----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 04/ /1961

Buker, Louise (1881 - 1961)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Louise Buker, 79, died at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 1961 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield. She had been admitted at the hospital after suffering a fractured hip at the Clark County Hospital in Owen, where she had been residing for the past three years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Immanuel United Church of Christ. The Rev. Orval Egbert will officiate and burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home beginning Friday afternoon.

The former Louise Poppe was born in Greenwood Aug. 20, 1881, and received her education there. She was married on Nov. 18, 1903, to George Buker, who died in 1936. The couple farmed in this area.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Irma) Kuester, Christie, and Mrs. Albert (Elsie) Jacks, Empire, Ore. three sons, Theodore, Loyal Walter, Greenwood and Erwin, Willard a brother, George Poppe, Longwood a sister, Mrs. Warren Poppe, Mabel, Minn. 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.