Obit: Berrett, Roland #2 (1915 - 2013)

Contact: Audrey Roedl
Email: audrey@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Berrett, Cook Krokson, Kintzler

----Source: The Loyal TRG (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 03 April, 2013

Berrett, Roland (20 Dec 1915-24 Mar 2013)

Roland J. Berrett, 97, Greenwood, died on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at the Clark County Health Care Center, Owen. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., on Thursday, March 28, at Missionary Baptist Church, Greenwood. Rev. Rob Love officiated. Burial followed in the Greenwood Cemetery. His grandchildren served as pallbearers.

Roland James Berrett was born on Dec. 20, 1915, in the town of Beaver, Clark County, the on of William and Myrtia (nee Cook) Berrett. He was raised in the Clark County area and graduated from Neillsville High School in 1933. He married Ethel F. Krokson on Feb. 4, 1937, in Neillsville. They took over the operation of her parents’ farm until 1959. Roland earned his teacher’s certificate and taught at country schools in Clark County. While teaching, he also attended college in Eau Claire, studying for his bachelor of arts degree in education, and later studying for his master’s degree in Education at Superior. He taught 8th grade in Granton for a few years and then moved to Sugar Camp, near Rhinelander, in 1964, where he was a teacher and the principal, until his retirement in 1979. After his retirement, they moved to a home southwest of Greenwood. He was a member of Missionary Baptist Church and had many interests, but especially enjoyed reading, gardening, woodworking and painting.

He is survived by three children, Beverly Kintzler, Thorp, Allen (Carolyn) Berrett, Plover, and Shelby Berrett, Neillsville; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; 1o great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.

Roland was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ethel, on Dec. 29, 2011; one daughter, Carol Kintzler; one brother, Verland Berrett; and three sisters, Ione Brandt, Luella Wendt and Genevieve Voie.

Online condolences may be expresses at www.cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, assisted the family with arrangements.