BioA: Sheets, Mr. & Mrs. Carl (Gold – 1966)
Contact: Dinah Reinke
Email:
dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Sheets, Ystad, Gaehring, Dunow, Olson, Brown, Hecker, Philpolt,
Larson, Bennett, Bertz, Turnquist, Felix, Luscher, Attery, Skoglund, Kirschmann,
Livingston, Harris, House
------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford and Colby, Clark Co., Wis.)
07/07/1966
------ Sheets, Mr. & Mrs. Carl (Gold - 05 JUL 1966)
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sheets celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sunday,
July 3, at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Curtiss, with an open house for their
friends and relatives from 2 to 5 p.m. The table was decorated with yellow and
white flowers and a four-tiered wedding cake.
The couple had yellow mums and white carnations fashioned into their corsage and
boutonniere. The attendants wore identical flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheets were married July 5, 1916, at the Methodist church at
Greenwood by the Rev. J. Scott Wilmarth. Attending the couple were Mrs. Sheets’
sister, Mrs. Anthony (Wanda Ystad) Gaehring, and Leland Sheets, the groom’s
brother.
Mrs. Sheets, the former Alma Ystad, was born Dec. 28, 1891, at Greenwood. Mr.
Sheets was born at Columbus Grove, Ohio, Oct 21, 1889. They farmed in the
Greenwood area until 1934 when they moved to a farm near Curtiss. Later they
moved to Taylor county and in 1951 they moved to their present home on route 1,
Curtiss.
The couple has four sons, Adrian of Villa Grove, Ill., Kenneth of Winona, Minn.,
Neil of Marshfield, and John of Unity; two daughters, Mrs. Henry (Virginia)
Dunow of Owen, and Mrs. Norman (Carol) Olson of Dorchester. There are 25 grand
children and 10 great grand children. Telephone calls were received from two
grand children who were unable to attend: Mrs. Arley (Betty Jo Sheets) Brown,
Thebes, Ill., and Richard Dunow of Kenosha.
Relatives and friends from out-of-town who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Adrian
Sheets, Bobby and Timmy, Villa Grove, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sheets and
daughters, Jeni, Jane and Moira, Winona, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Neil Sheets and
children, Steven, Lori, Stacy and Kevin of Marshfield, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheets
and sons of Unity, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Olson and Kristi, Mike and Nancy
Dorchester, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunow, Owen, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gaehring and
Conrad, Mrs. Julia Hecker, Mrs. Nettie Philpolt, Mrs. Lillian Ystad, Mrs. Oluf
Ystad, Mrs. R. E. Larson, Mrs. Otholie Bennett, Mrs. Jerome Bertz, all of Loyal,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ystad, Mr. and Mrs. Art Turnquist, Mrs. John Felix and son,
Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Luscher of Ladysmith, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Attery and
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Skoglund, Ronnie and Jane, Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Kirschmann, Anoke, Minn., Miss Kay Larson and Jerry Gaehring and children, Eau
Claire, Leland Sheets, Neillsville, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Livingston, Winona,
Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Arlun Harris, Chippewa Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Henry House,
Abbotsford, and many friends from the Curtiss area.
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