Obit: Grandy, Emma L. (1889 – 1965)

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Surnames: Grandy, Dresdow, Eppers

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04/08/1965

Grandy, Emma L. (22 AUG 1889 – 2 APR 1965)

Rev. Beryl Knudsen officiated at the funeral service conducted for Mrs. Emma Louise Grandy, Monday, April 5. Services were held at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, Owen, with interment being made at Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers included Wm. Park, Art Karow, Arno Vater, Elmer Venet, Elton Fritz and George Kaduce.

Mrs. Grandy passed away Friday, April 2, 1965, Waukesha County. She was 75 years of age, being born Aug. 22, 1889.

Born in Waukesha County where she was schooled, she united in marriage to the late Henry Grandy on Aug. 20, 1912 in a ceremony performed in Minnesota. She couple made their home at Cadott, Wis. until 1914, when they moved to the Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) community, settling on a farm where they resided until his death on Sept. 3, 1940. After Mr. Grandy’s death she worked as a housekeeper in the area until 1958, when she made her home with a sister, Hattie Dresdow.

Survivors are two sisters, Hattie Dresdow of rural Withee and Mrs. Caroline Eppers of Waukesha; four brothers, William and Albert Dresdow of rural Withee, Walter Dresdow of Eau Claire and Otto Dresdow of Waukesha; two sons, Howard Grandy of Spencer and Ray Grandy of Pound, Wis.; and eight grandchildren.