Obit: Windom, Nelda Otilda (1898 - 1972)

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

Surnames: Windom, Halverson, Hemminger, Voie, Markee, Ossman, Danielson, Steffen, Dyre, Warner, Wenger

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 19/26/1972

Windom, Nelda Otilda (19 August 1898 - 19 October 1972)

Miss Nelda Otilda Windom, 74, of Greenwood died October 19 in Neillsville, where she had been a patient since September 15 at Memorial Hospital and Memorial Home.

Miss Windom, daughter of Thron and Randi Mary (Halverson) Windom, was born August 19, 1898, in Melrose. She came to Greenwood with her family in 1920. She was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and the American Lutheran Church Women.

Survivors are two sisters, Miss Helen Windom and Mrs. Ivan (Mary) Hemminger of Greenwood; two brothers, John Lendo and Elmer Windom of Greenwood; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held Saturday from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. The Rev. David Wenger officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Otto Voie, Clarence Markee, Don Ossman, David Danielson, Gerald Steffen and Godfrey Dyre.

Mrs. Otto Voie sand, “Den Store Vide Flok” (“Behold the Host”) in Norwegian and the congregation sang accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Don Warner.