----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 01/23/2002

Ward, Florence T. (1921 - 2002)

Florence T. (nee Theisen) Ward, 80, South Milwaukee, formerly of Loyal, Clark County, died on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2002. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, at St. Sylvester Church, South Milwaukee. The Rev. Ronald Gramza, the Rev. Justin Kane and Deacon Andrew Muler officiated. Burial was in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. She was a 1939 Loyal High School graduate. She was an active member of St. Sylvester Parish and its liturgy committee and choir. She was a former teacher at South Milwaukee High School.

Survivors include four children, Patty (Tony) Antony, John (Elizabeth) Ward, Robert (Ann) Ward, and Kathleen (Dan) Stemper 12 grandchildren two brothers, William (Ethelyn) Theisen, Loyal, and Dr. Charles (Carol) Theisen three sisters, Mary (Fritz) Theisen-Helm, Beth (Jerome) Johnson, and Barbara (Homer) Betts two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Theisen and Eleanor Ward nieces nephews and other relatives and friends.

Preceding her in death were her husband, James E. Ward three brothers, Leo Theisen, Raymond Theisen and Abbott Jerome Theisen, O.S.B. and one sister, Eleanor.