Obit: Morgal, Margaret (1880 - 1970)

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

Surnames: Morgal, Plutt, Ehlers, Mertens

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 3/05/1970

Morgal, Margaret (11 June 1880 - 25 February 1970)

Mrs. Frank Morgal, 89, of Willard, died February 25 in Neillsville, where she had been a hospital patient following a stroke.

Mrs. Morgal, the former Margaret Plutt, was born June 11, 1880 in Yugoslavia. She came to America in 1901. She was married in October, 1902, in Ely, Minn., to Frank Morgal. He died on July 9, 1954. They farmed in Ely, Minn., until 1908 and then in Albany, Minn., until they moved to Willard in 1913. Mrs. Morgal was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church, the Altar Society and the American Slovenian Catholic Union Lodge.

She is survived by a son, Frank Morgal of Willard; four daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Mary) Ehlers of Greenwood, Miss Emily Morgal of Chicago, and the Misses Margaret and Amy Morgal at home; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held February 28, at 9:30 a.m. at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10:30 a.m. from the Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. The Rev. Michael Mertens officiated. Burial was made in the Holy Family Cemetery.