Obit: Machel, Amanda (1892 - 1969)

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

Surnames: Machel, Wegert, Sprague

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/12/1969

Machel, Amanda (17 May 1892 - 9 June 1969)

Miss Amanda Machel, 77, of Neillsville, died here Monday afternoon. Funeral services were to be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home with the Rev. D. E. Sprague of the Assembly of God Church officiating. Burial was to be made in Elm Lawn Memorial Cemetery at Elmhurst, Ill.

Miss Machel was born in Bochnia, Hungary, May 17, 1892, the daughter of John and Louise (Wegert) Machel. The family came to the United States when she was nine days old. Her parents located in Chicago and four years later came to Clark County and farmed in the Town of Grant for 26 years.

Miss Machel attended Stevens Point Teachers’ College and a business college in Springfield, Ill. She was employed at Wards, Western Electric, Western Union and the Admiral Radio Corporation in Chicago, Ill. She returned to Neillsville in 1966.