Obit: Cushman, Elmer (1880 – 1964)

Contact:  Pat Braun

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Surnames:  Cushman, Woodring, Stegeman, Eberts, Slock, Paper, Fagan, Barrett

----Source:  Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 3/26/1964)

Cushman, Elmer J. (1880 – 22 MAR 1964)

FINAL RITES HELD FOR ELMER CUSHMAN

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home for Elmer J. Cushman who passed away March 22.  He was a resident of the Havenet Nursing Home at the time of his death which was due to complications that set in after he recently fractured his hip.  He was 84 years and 20 days of age. 

Rev. Arnold Woodring, Pastor of The Alliance Church, Owen, officiated at the final rites with burial being made at Riverside cemetery.  Serving as pallbearers were Ted Stegeman, Bert Eberts, Ray Slock, August Slock, William Pape and Dan Fagan.

Elmer J. Cushman was born March 2, 1880, in Illinois.  He came to Owen in 1913 living on a farm north of Owen in the Town of Hoard for several years.  He then left working and residing in such far off places as Nebraska, Kansas, Chicago, and Rochester, N.Y.  Until 1955 when he returned here making his home with his sister, Mrs. Lola Barrett, until he established a residence at the Havenet Home several months ago.