Obit: Weetz, Clarence John (1907 - 1966)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bitter, Glidden, Polnazek, Smith, Thorn, Weetz, Wilkens

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Clarence John Weetz (5 Dec 1907 - 21 Jan 1966)

(By News-Herald correspondent)

ABBOTSFORD-Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday (25 Jan 1966) at the Polnazek Funeral Home in Abbotsford for Clarence John Weetz, 58, of 825 Bliss Ave., Stevens Point, who died at 11:25 p.m. Friday at St. Michael's Hospital in Stevens Point. The Rev. Charles Glidden will officiate, and burial will be made in the Abbotsford cemetery.

Mr. Weetz was born Dec. 5, 1907, in Jackson County, Minn., where he received his elementary education. The family then moved to Abbotsford, where he graduated from high school. An accountant, he resided in Milwaukee until 1948, when he returned to Abbotsford.

His marriage to Florence Thorn, who preceded him in death June 23, 1951, took place Jan. 31, 1941. On Sept. 5, 1954, he married Mrs. Gladys Wilkens, who survives.

Other survivors include a son, David, Racine; two step-children, Mrs. Robert G. Smith, Elkart, Ind.; and Capt. Jerome Wilkens, McGuire AFB, N.J.; a sister, Mrs. Adeline Bitter, Abbotsford; and 13 grandchildren.