----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 08/12/1981

Finkel, Ellen (1894 - 1981)

Mrs. Ellen Finkel(Finkle), 87, of Simi Valley, Calif., died early Sunday, Aug. 9, 1981, at about 1 a.m., in Simi Valley, Calif.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12, at Rinka Funeral Home. Pastor Ted Redfield of 7th Day Adventist Church, Merrill, will officiate and interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will lie in state at Rinka Funeral Home from 9:30 Wednesday until the time of services on Wednesday.

Ellen Elmer was born on Jan. 1, 1894, at Columbus. She was educated at Christopherson School.

She married Edwin Finkel at Greenwood on Nov. 27, 1914. They farmed in the Town of Warner for a number of years before moving to the City of Greenwood.

Survivors include one son, George of Louisville, Texas three daughters, Mrs. August (Floraine) Franz of Terry, Iowa, Mrs. Lila Tucker of Santa Anna, Texas, and Mrs. Harold (Ethel) Jones of Simi Valley, Cal. 11 grandchildren 16 great-grandchildren one brother, Ernest Elmer of Greenwood and two sisters, Mrs. Olive Verlinde of Sandy, Oregon and Mrs. Viola Gesmer of Madison.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Edwin on March 12, 1964 four brothers two sisters and one daughter, Marian.
Rinka Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.