----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 06/08/1994

THEODORE (TED) KERN

Theodore Ted Kern, 82, Greenwood, Clark County, died Friday, July 1, 1994, at Neillsville Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. at Rinka Funeral Home in Greenwood. Pastor Larry Olson officiated. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

Theodore Alvin Kern was born Nov. 15, 1911 in Greenwood to George and Lena (Sundermeyer) Kern. He received his education at Decker School in the Town of Warner. As a young man he worked in the harvest fields of South Dakota during the summers. He also worked in the iron ore docks in Duluth, Minn. and for the Railroad in Minnesota. He also worked at the Union Station in Chicago. He then returned to Greenwood and farmed on the family farm until his retirement in 1978, at which time he moved to Greenwood.

Survivors include four sisters, Mabel Moldenhauer, Appleton Hazel Mueller, Arlington Heights, Ill. Violet Seroski, Belvidere, Ill. and Rose Kern, Greenwood nieces nephews other relative and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers.

Rinka Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.