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

Speich, Emma (1894 - 1953)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Speich, 58, Greenwood, who died at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan 27, 1953 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Stabnow Funeral Home from Friday noon until Saturday noon, when it will be taken to the church.

Mrs. Speich entered the hospital Jan. 19, following a stroke, and had been in a coma since that time.

Born July 30, 1894, in the Town of Warner, Clark County, Mrs. Speich, the former Emma Dorothy Braun, had been a resident of the area her entire life. At the age of five, she came to the City of Greenwood with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Christian Braun. She received her education in the Greenwood schools.

Her marriage to John Speich took place Nov. 28, 1918, in the West Side parsonage. They operated a farm 2 miles west of Greenwood until four years ago, when they retired and, after building a new home in the city, came here.

She was a member of the Zion Church and its Ladies Aid Society, and also of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Hemlock Aid.

Survivors include her husband, two sons, John D., Greenwood, and Robert, Wabasha, Minn. five grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. George (Bertha) Buker, Greenwood.

A son, Richard, died in infancy.