Obit: Guy, Ella M. (1918 - 2014)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Banach, Bucher, Costley, Eisner, Guy, Haider, Krause, Lewis, Meulemans, Priniski, Quednow, Rodgers, Schoonover, Schreiner

----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 2/27/2014

Guy, Ella M. (Schreiner) (20 JUN 1918 - 21 FEB 2014)

Ella M. Guy, 95, Rib Lake, died on Friday, Feb. 21 at Care Partners Assisted Living in Medford, where she had resided the past eight days, while under hospice care. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Rib Lake, with Father Otto Bucher, Father Dennis Meulemans and Deacon Mark Priniski officiating.

Interment was at Lakeview Cemetery in Rib Lake. Pallbearers were Timothy Guy, Peter and Carol Banach, Dick, Laura and Peter Schreiner, Diane Eisner, Henry and Fran Rodgers, Lester Lewis and John Krause.

Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.

The former Ella Schreiner was born on June 20, 1918 in the Town of Greenwood to the late George and Frances (Haider) Schreiner. She attended Rib River Grade School.

On April 20, 1940 in Chicago, Ill., she married George R. Guy, who preceded her in death on November 13, 1972. In her younger years, she was a nanny in the Chicago area, then worked at Eversharp in Chicago. She was an assembler at General Products in Chicago until her retirement in 1980, when she moved to the Rib Lake Area.

She was a member of Good Shepherd Catholic Church where she was a member of the Christian Mothers. During retirement she volunteered at the church and Golden LivingCenter in Rib Lake as a Eucharistic Minister, and started masses at the nursing home and the weekly rosary service. She enjoyed gardening, apples, knitting and quilting.

Survivors include a son, Timothy (Nancy) Guy of Steger, Ill.; a brother, Elmer Schreiner of Loyal; a sister, Emma Schoonover of Casper, Wyo.; and three grandsons, Timothy Guy, John Guy and Christopher Guy.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by nine brothers, George, Leo, John, Lawrence "Bud," Clarence, Ray, Art, Alfred "Fritz," and Harold "Otto," and three sisters, Mary Costley, Agnes Krause and Ruth Quednow.