----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 04/ /1954

Reineking, Otto Henry (1893 - 1954)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Funeral services for Otto Henry Reineking, 60, who died Thursday morning, April 8, 1954, at the Veteran's Hospital at Wood, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will take place in the West Side Cemetery.

Mr. Reineking was born Aug. 8, 1893, in the Town of Mead, 6 miles northwest of Greenwood, and received his education in the Town of Warner. On May 21, 1919, he was married to Olga Meinholdt at the home of her mother, Mrs. Theodore Meinholdt, Greenwood.

A lifelong resident of the Town of Mead, he served as supervisor there for a number of years and treasurer for 15 years. He was a member of the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church and acted as deacon and elder at different times and had also been a member of the senior choir. He was a veteran of World War I.

Surviving besides his wife are a son, Norman Reineking, Greenwood two daughters, Mrs. Orlin (Alvera) Fravert, Greenwood, and Miss Eldora Reineking, student at the State College in Stevens Point seven sisters, Mrs. Lydia Miller, Greenwood Mrs. Bertha Sebastian, Mrs. William (Hilda) Decker, Mrs. Ella Steiger, and Miss Selma Reineking, Milwaukee Mrs. John (Meta) Vollrath, Los Angeles and Mrs. Alfred (Amelia) Decker, Coeur d Alene, Idaho a brother, Arthur Reineking, Rio and three grandchildren, Gail, Gene, and Wayne Reineking.