Obit: Shock, Frances H. (1911 - 1990)

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Surnames: SHOCK FREI BROOKS BERGSTROM
 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 07/04/1990
 

Shock, Frances H. (1911 - 1990)

Frances H. "Toots" Shock, 79, Neillsville, died at 12:24 p.m., Saturday, June 30, 1990, at Memorial Hospital, Neillsville. Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 3, 1990, at the United Church of Christ, Neillsville. Rev. Linda Kuhn officiated. Burial was in the Nazareth Lutheran Cemetery, Withee. Grandsons served as pallbearers.

Frances H. Shock was born May 23, 1911, at Withee and educated there. She married Ellsworth Shock April 11, 1927, at Owen. He died Sept. 22, 1978. They moved to Neillsville in 1928. She was employed at the Neillsville Bakery for 30 years, worked at the Neillsville Pool Hall for two years and kept records for Dr. E. H. Brekke for ten years. She retired at the age of 62. She was a member of the United Church of Christ and the Moose Lodge of Neillsville.

Survivors include one son, Ellsworth Shock Jr., Grafton two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Joyce) Frei, Whitehall and Mrs. Richard (Nancy) Brooks, Morris, Ill. one brother, Edward Bergstrom, Naples, Fla. 15 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one brother and one sister.

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