Obit: Adams, Cora Ellen (Mrs. A. L. Adams) (1879 – 1964)

Contact: Dinah Reinke

Email: dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Adams, Hubbard, Knight, Mauritz, Merwin, Olson, Stover, Person, Peterson, Coggin, Abbott, Meirhofer, Plasch, Roehl, Davis

------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/12/1964

------ Adams, Cora Ellen (28 MAY 1879 – 4 MAR 1964)

Funeral services for Mrs. A. L. Adams, 84, of Abbotsford who died at her home Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. were held Saturday afternoon at the Polnaszek Funeral Home where the body lay in state from Friday afternoon until the time of the services.

The Rev. Charles Glidden, pastor of the First Presbyterian church conducted the services at one o’clock.  Mrs. Rueben Mantik was organist and accompanist for Mrs. Elmer Jensen who sang “Some Time We’ll Understand”.

The body was taken to Hancock for interment that afternoon and was accompanied by the pallbearers who were Bob Knight, Louis Mauritz, Ben Merwin, Einar Olson and Ernest Stover, all of Abbotsford, and Swan Person of Owen.

The former Cora Ellen Hubbard was born May 28, 1879 in the town of Hancock and received her education there.  She was a telephone operator before her marriage to Ardin Adams at Hancock Sept. 29, 1903.  During the first years of their marriage they lived in various places in Michigan and Wisconsin as Mr. Adams was a telegraph operator.  In April of 1918 they came to Abbotsford and have lived here ever since.

Mrs. Adams has been in frail health, but last Sept. 29 the 60^th anniversary of their wedding was celebrated with all the family in attendance.

She is survived by her husband, one son, Claude S., of Wauwatosa, and one daughter, Mrs. Roy (Edna) Peterson of Abbotsford.  There are four grand children and nine great grand children.

Also surviving her are three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Coggin, Mrs. Lana Abbott and Mrs. Ada Meirhofer, all of Hancock.  There are also a number of nieces and nephews.

Two sisters preceded her in death. 

Among the relatives from away who were here for the funeral were Claude Adams of Wauwatosa, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peterson and twin daughters, Barbara and Carol, of Rockford, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. George Peterson and Jimmy and Mrs. Robert Plasch of Minneapolis, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roehl and Miss Dorothy Coggin of Hancock and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Davis of Ripon.