Obit: Seliskar, Philip J. #2 (1907 - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Seliskar, Pahl, Jurceka, Makovec, Plautz, Mertens

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 10/16/1969

Seliskar, Philip J. (29 April 1907 - 8 October 1969)

Philip J. Seliskar, 62, of Rt. 2, Greenwood, died of a lingering illness at 1:05 a.m. Wednesday in a Marshfield hospital where he was admitted August 26. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday from the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood, and at 11 a.m. from Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. The Rev. Michael Mertens will officiate. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. Friends may call Friday afternoon at the funeral home and a rosary service will be held there Friday at 8 p.m.

Mr. Seliskar was born April 29, 1907, in Waukegan, Ill. At the age of three he came with his parents to Greenwood, where he received his education, graduated from the high school in 1926. He graduated from La Crosse Business University in 1928 and worked in various McClellan stores.

He was married to Evelyn Pahl on August 31, 1934, in Virginia, Minn. In 1937, they moved to Waukegan, Ill., where he worked for the Cyclone Fence Company. In 1945 they returned to the home farm at Greenwood. For the last 10 years he has been an accountant for Plautz Brothers of Willard.

Mr. Seliskar was active in civic affairs, and had served as Town of Eaton clerk since 1954; was past supervisor and town chairman, a member of the Clark County Board of supervisors; and was a charter member of Greenwood Credit Union, having served as director since its origin.

He was financial secretary of American Slovenian Catholic Union for 17 years; past president of Clark County Association for Retarded Children; secretary-treasurer of Greenwood area ambulance service; secretary of Eaton-Warner Fire Association and a third degree member of the Knights of Columbus, Queen of Peace Council of Thorp.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, James of Stetsonville and William of Northlake, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. Miles (Phyllis) Jurceka of Berwyn, Ill., and Judith and Mary Ann, at home; two brothers, John of San Antonio, Tex., and George of Greenwood; a sister, Mrs. Frank (Mary) Makovec of Owen; and nine grandchildren.