----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD (Marshfield, Wis.) 02/07/2002

Ortwig, Samuel (1927 - 2002)

GREENWOOD - Samuel Bernard Ortwig, age 74, of Greenwood, died Feb. 6, 2002, at Memorial Medical Center in Neillsville.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Missionary Baptist Church and burial will follow in the Greenwood City Cemetery.

Visitation will from 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the church.

Cuddie Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements.

He was born Sept. 13, 1927, in Zion, Ill., to Charles and Ruth (Clark) Ortwig. He married Myrtle I. Richardson on Dec. 21, 1949. They lived in Zion and he worked at U.S. Steel and Wire in North Chicago. He farmed from 1959 until 1979 in Greenwood. He then worked as a truck driver for Grassland Dairy Products until retiring in 1993.

He is survived by his wife, Myrtle Ortwig of Greenwood four daughters, Jackie (John) Nowak of Wind Lake, Kathleen Ortwig of Appleton, Janette (Dale) Schultz of Granton and Becky (Jim) Turczyn of Neillsville two sons, Sam "Bruce" (Karen) Ortwig of Canon Beach, Ore., and Dan (Crystal) Ortwig of Winnetka, Ill. 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren one brother, Fred (Katie) Ortwig of Exeland and two sisters, Miriam (Gordon) Beyreis of Exeland and Bernice Seffinga of Zion, Ill.