Obit: Short, Elsie B. (1892 - 1990)

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Surnames: SHORT NEITZEL RIEDEL TROEMMER
 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 07/11/1990
 

Short, Elsie B. (1892 - 1990)

Elsie B. Short, 97, died Sunday, July 1, 1990, at 7:05 a.m. at Neillsville Memorial Home. Funeral services were held Thursday, July 5, 1990, at Zion American Lutheran Church, Granton. Rev. Alice Hill officiated. Burial was in Windfall Cemetery.

Elsie (Neitzel) Short was born Nov. 1, 1892, in the town of Lynn, Clark County, to Otto and Susan (Riedel) Neitzel. She graduated from Neillsville High School and began teaching. She taught in several Clark County rural schools before leaving teaching to marry. She married Arthur Short on Dec. 18, 1918, in Granton. He died March 13, 1984. She was a member of Zion American Lutheran Church, Granton and Lynn Birthday Club.

Survivors include two daughters, Elaine Short, Granton and Mrs. Audrey Troemmer, DeForest, and two grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, six sister and one brother.

Gesche Funeral Home, Inc., Neillsville, was in charge of the arrangements.