Surnames: VOLLRATH HERIAN LOGEMANN ROGERS GERLACH SPEICH

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 07/27/1983

Vollrath, Ernest E. (1896 - 1983)

Ernest E. Vollrath, 86, of Greenwood, Clark County, who had been staying with his daughter in Lohrville, died Wednesday morning, July 20, 1983, at the Berlin Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Vollrath was born on Dec. 10, 1896, in Greenwood, the son of William and Anna (nee Herian) Vollrath. He married Adeline Logemann on Oct. 11, 1928, in Sheboygan Falls.

Mr. Vollrath was education in the Greenwood Schools. He farmed his father's homestead in Mead Township, Clark County, until his retirement in 1964. He was a life-long resident of Mead Township.

Mr. Vollrath was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenwood the Redgranite Senior Citizens Friendship Club and the Greenwood Senior Citizens. He had been secretary of the Lynn Insurance Co. of Neillsville, had been Town Clerk for Mead Township and had sold DeKalb seed corn for many years, and was active in community affairs.

Survivors include his wife, Adeline one son, Kenneth Vollrath of Largo, Fla. one daughter, Mrs. William (Vi) Rogers of Lohrville, Wis. two sisters, Mrs. Emma Gerlach and Mrs. Ida Speich, both of Neillsville 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Saturday, July 23, 1983, at 11 a.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenwood. Rev. Daniel Ahrens officiated and burial was in the Greenwood City Cemetery.

Ruminski Funeral Home, Redgranite, handled arrangements.