Obit: Bredesen, Mabel #2 (1894 - 1971)

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

Surnames: Bredesen, Aitkins, Keyes, Dunn, Harms, Bundick, Ferguson, Antrim

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 9/09/1971

Bredesen, Mabel #2 (12 June 1894 - 4 September 1971)

Mrs. Leo Bredesen, 77, of Greenwood, died Saturday morning in Memorial Hospital, Neillsville. She suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Funeral services were to be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from Grace United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Eugene Antrim officiating. Burial was to be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Bredesen, the former Mabel Keyes, was born June 12, 1894, in Dunn County. Her parents were Daniel and Alice (Aitkins) Keyes. She was married on February 10, 1915, to Leo Bredesen in Greenwood. Mr. Bredesen, a well driller, died February 25, 1964.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Merrill (Eileen) Dunn, Medford, Mrs. Marion Dunn and Mrs. Verna Harms, both of Owen, Mrs. Edward (Bonnie) Bundick, Anchorage, Alaska, and Mrs. Bernard (June) Ferguson of Chattanooga, Tenn.; 17 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.