Obit: Ackerman, Florence Damon #2 (1866 - 1948)

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Surnames: Ackerman, Damon, Kuehnau, Fleming, Hampton, Van Dyke, Fiebke, Holterman, Follett, Graves, Driscoll, Hayward, Brehn

----Source: Spencer Record, Spencer, Wis.) 04/01/1948

Ackerman, Florence Damon (6 FEB 1866 – 22 MAR 1948)


Mrs. Ackerman Laid To Rest

Funeral services were held at Marshfield Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Hansen Funeral Home for Mrs. Florence Ackerman, 82, who died at 9 p. m. Monday at a Milwaukee hospital following a three years’ illness. The Rev. Raymond J. Fleming, pastor of the First Methodist Church, conducted the rites and burial was in the West Spencer cemetery.

Mrs. Ackerman, nee Damon, was born February 6, 1866 at North Lubec, Maine, and was married at Spencer to William D. Ackerman, who proceded [sic] her in death in 1941. She was the daughter of Joseph and Susan Damon. Mrs. Ackerman received her education in Spencer and was a school teacher at Hewitt and in Minnesota. For the past thirty years she made Milwaukee her home.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Genevieve Hampton, Aberdeen, S. D. and Mrs. Maurine Van Dyke, California; a son, Carroll Reed Ackerman, Washington, d. C.; five grandchildren; and a sister Mrs. John R. Kuehnau, Unity. Three brothers are dead.

Relatives from and friends from away who were here for the funeral were Leonard and John Damon, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Damon, Wausau; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Damon, Tomahawk; Mrs. John R. Kuehnau, Unity; Mr. and Mrs. John Fiebke, Athens; Miss Ina Damon, Mr. Glenn Damon, and Mrs. W. C. Holterman, Spencer; and Mrs. Al Follett, Marshfield.

Pallbearers were Leonard and Glen Damon, Spence Graves, Laurence Driscoll, George Hayward and Harry Brehn.