Obit: Williams, Florence Janet (1893 - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Williams, Cooper, Krom, Kocher, Wagner, Snedic, Bergemann, Jackson, Schultz, Booher

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 2/06/1969

Williams Florence Janet (7 March 1893 - January 1969)

Funeral services for Miss Florence Janet Williams, 75, were held last week Thursday afternoon from the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood. The body was taken to Necedah, where graveside rites were conducted at the Bay View Cemetery. The Rev. Carl Booher, pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, officiated.

Pallbearers were: Harold Krom, Donald Kocher, Victor Wagner, John Snedic, H. M. Bergemann and Einar Jackson. Gary Schultz sang, “Softly and Tenderly” and “The Old Rugged Cross” with Mrs. Gary Schultz as organist.

Miss Williams, daughter of John and Alice (Cooper) Williams, was born March 7, 1893, at Necedah. She was the youngest of 14 children and had never married. She graduated from Necedah High School, attended St. Clara’s College at Cincinawa Mound near Dubuque, Ia., and then took nurses training in Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago. She was a registered nurse in Chicago for many years and on retirement came to Greenwood, where she lived with her sister, Miss Alice Williams, who died in 1962.

She is survived by one brother, Robert Williams of Milwaukee.

Those who attended the funeral were Robert Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Williams and Roland Williams of Milwaukee, and Mr. and Mrs. Gary Williams and John Williams, of Necedah.