Obit: Decker, Theodore August #2 (1901 - 1968)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Decker, Meier, Kepke, Pawleck, Fillips, Shortess, Wolfe, O’Connell, Logue

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) /1968

Decker, Theodore August (13 December 1901 - 1968)

Theodore August Decker, 68, former Greenwood resident, died suddenly at his home in Chicago Thursday of a heart attack.

Mr. Decker, son of Otto and Lydia (Meier) Decker, was born December 13, 1901, in Greenwood. He received his education in the Greenwood School. He was married June 30, 1930, to Evelyn Kepke at Winona, Minn. They lived in Greenwood until 1957, when they moved to Chicago.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Donald Decker of Greenwood and Bernard Decker of Orlando, Fla.; eight grandchildren; four brothers, Fred of Greenwood, Arthur of St. Paul, Minn., Otto of Marengo, Ill., and Gilbert of Fountain City; five sisters, Mrs. John (Edna) Pawleck of Soquel, Calif., Mrs. Harold (Elsie) Fillips of Glen, Minn., Mrs. Jack (Dorothy) Shortess of Spencer; Mrs. Elmer (Eleanor) Wolfe of Neenah; and Mrs. Leo (Leona) O’Connell of Rockford, Ill.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from Immanuel United Church. The Rev. David Logue officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.