Obit: Holub, Joseph (1908 - 1969)

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

Surnames: Holub, Honzik, Kernz, Harlicker, Aldrich, Jahn, McCarty, Carey

----Source: Banner Journal (Black River Falls, Jackson Co., WI) 10/15/1969

Joseph Holub (4 December 1908 - 6 October 1969)

Joseph Holub, 60, Rt. 2 Alma Center, died Monday night, October 6, 1969, at his farm home.

When Mr. Holub failed to come in from the barn after evening chores, his wife went looking for him and found his body near the barn door. He had been in semi-retirement several years due to a heart ailment.

He was born in Chicago December 4, 1908, and moved to Neillsville with his parents as a child. He later moved to the Alma Center area.

Services were at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Alma Center Methodist Church, the Rev. Calvin Carey officiating. Burial was in the East Lawn Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mildred; two sons, Ronald, who is in the armed forces in Germany, and Leonard of Janesville; seven daughters, Mrs. Delores Kernz, Loretta and Barbara Holub of Waunakee, Mrs. Ilene Harlicker of Minneapolis; Mrs. Shirley Aldrich of Neillsville; Mrs. Laverne Jahn of Alma Center and Kathy, a student at Eau Claire State University; three brothers Edward and Ervin of Neillsville and George of Greenwood; and a sister, Mrs. Lillian McCarty of Sauk City.

(Added note: He was married May 9, 1931, to Mildred M. Honzik in Neillsville)