Obit: Mack, Lou (1885 - 1967)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Surnames: Mack, Welsh, Sterr

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 15 June 1967

Mack, Lou (06 Nov 1885 - 07 June 1967)

Mrs, Lou Mack, 81, Loyal, died Wednesday, June 7, at Memorial Hospital of old complications.

Services were held Friday, June 9, at 2 p.m. at the Loyal Methodist Church, with the Rev. Lelan Shaw officiating. Burial was made in the Loyal cemetery. The Myre Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

The former Lou Welsh, was born November 6, 1885 at Clancy, Kansas. At the age of 18 months she came to Loyal by covered wagon with her parents and took six weeks to get here. She had resided in Loyal all her life except for a number of winters that she spent with her daughters in Arizona. She graduated with the class of 1903 from Loyal High School. She taught school previous to her marriage and later returned to this profession and also was employed at the Rellis Store for a number of years. Was news correspondent for the Loyal Tribune for 25 years.

On May 4, 1912, she married Walter Mack. He preceded her in death in 1939.

The Royal Neighbors conducted a service at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Myre Funeral Home of which she was a chartered member.

Pallbearers were Roy Thomas, Neil Oestreich, Ray Prior, Henry Boe, Harold Hills, and Frank Oestreich.

William Chambers accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Byron Zepplin, sang “Old Rugged Cross” and “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.”

Mrs. Mack was a charter member of the Royal Neighbors of America, Legion Auxiliary, Birthday Circle, and charter member of the Clark County Historical Society. She also was a member of the Loyal Methodist Church; awarded Life Membership to the W.S.C.S. and served on the Loyal Cemetery Board for a number of years.

She is survived by the following children; Mildred Mack Sterr, Safford, Arizona; Vance Mack, Melbourne, Australia; and twins, Sherrin Mack, Loyal; and Shirley Mack Kehoe, Mesa, Arizona; seventeen grandchildren; a brother, William Welsh, Billings, Montana.

She was preceded in death by two (rest of article not available for me to type)