----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 08/- /1953

Sonderegger, William (1888 - 1953)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Services will be held Monday for William Sonderegger, 65, route 1, who died at his home at 6:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28, 1953, of a heart ailment. Run over by a truck two years ago, he had been in ill health since.

The Rev. Jack Grether, Neillsville, will conduct rites at 2 p.m. in Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church here, and burial will be made in Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at Stabnow Funeral Home, beginning this evening until Monday noon.

Born May 28, 1888, in Switzerland, Mr. Sonderegger came to the United States in 1907 and settled in Buffalo County as a maker of Swiss Cheese. He moved to the Town of Beaver 28 years ago and farmed 17 years, then moved to a farm 6 miles northeast of here, where he lived until his death.

He was married in 1910 in La Fayette County to Julia Rude. She survives him.

Other survivors include four sons, Clarence, James and Arthur, Greenwood, and Robert, Wausau a daughter, Mrs. Inez Langfeldt, Wausau a sister, Mrs. Edwin Hohl, Greenwood a brother, Fritz, of Switzerland and 10 grandchildren.

A daughter, Margaret, and a brother, Jake, preceded him in death.