----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 05/11/1983

Metke, Irene E. (1911 - 1983)

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar (Irene E. Varney) Metke, Fort Atkinson, were killed around noon on Thursday, April 28, 1983, in a car-truck accident in Texas.

The fatal crash took place on U.S. Highway 59, about six miles north of Atlanta, Texas. Police said the car being driven by Mrs. Metke had passed a truck loaded with pumpwood and apparently cut in too soon, striking the left front fender of the truck. The truck then rolled over the Metke car, killing them both instantly.

In their retirement years, the Metkes had divided their time between Wisconsin and Texas.

Mrs. Metke, 71, the former Irene Ellora Varney, was born at Greenwood, Clark County, Wis., on Nov. 1, 1911. She graduated from Greenwood High School in 1928, the University of Wis. at Madison and the Wis. Library School.

She was head librarian at Neillsville from 1932 - 1935, then at the Dwight Foster Public Library at fort Atkinson until she retired in 1973.

She was a member of the Ingelside Club, American Legion Auxiliary, Fort Atkinson Historical Society, Wis. Library Association and the Wis. Library School Alumni Association.

She was married to Oscar Metke on Oct. 14, 1944.

Mrs. Metke is survived by four nieces and a nephew, including Mrs. Margaret Dillenbeck of Greenwood.

There will be a memorial service at the First Methodist Church at fort Atkinson on May 17, after cremation in Texas.