Obit: Shell, Freeda (1882 – 1967)

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Surnames: Shell, Brussow, Meier

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 05 Jan 1967

Shell, Freeda (20 Aug 1882 – 31 Dec 1967)

Mrs. Freeda Shell, 84, of Loyal died at 5 p.m. Saturday, December 31, at Memorial Hospital of complications.

Services were held at 2 p.m. at the Myre Funeral Home on Tuesday, January 3. The Rev. A. M. Moldenhauer, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church officiated. Burial was made in the Lutheran Cemetery.

Mrs. Erwin Dux, soloist, was accompanied at the organ by Mr. John A. Olson. Mrs. Dux sang “Nearer My God To Thee,” and “Abide With Me.”

The pallbearers were John Olson, Walter Krahn, Julius Ehlert, Ferd Gotter, Howard Syurtz Sr. and Glean Doering.

The former Freeda Brussow was born August 20, 1882 in the town of Loyal. She married Henry Meier in 1902. After their marriage the couple farmed south of Loyal for many years. When they retired they moved to the city of Loyal. Mr. Meier died in 1947.

September of 1950 she married Gerhardt Shell. He died July 1962.

Mrs. Shell was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and its Women’s Society.

The past several years shr had been in poor health. This last year she had spent at the Memorial Home, Neillsville.

She was preceded in death by one son in infancy and three brothers.