Obit: Bills, Cary D. (1870 - 1966)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bills, Emery

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) 1/6/1966

Bills, Cary D. (12 April 1870 - 4 January 1965)

Funeral services are to be held this (Thursday) morning from the Georgas Funeral Home for Cary D. Bills, 95, of Rt. 1 Neillsville, who died here Tuesday.

Following the service, the body is to be taken to Sauk City where funeral services will be held Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Prairie du Sac Cemetery.

Mr. Bills was born April 12, 1870, in Iowa County, where he also attended school.  He was married to the former Susan Emery in Iowa County.  She died in 1938.

Mr. Bills was a carpenter, and in 1911 went to work on the railroad.  He came to Clark County in 1954 with his son, Delbert Bills, with whom he made his home.

He is survived by two sons, William of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Delbert Bills of Rt. 1 Neillsville.  Other survivors are 24 grandchildren; 87 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great-grandchildren.