Obit: Harms, Fern T. (1891 – 1967)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Harms, Detrick, Capes, Nicholson, Frey

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 25 May 1967

Harms, Fern T. (1891 – 17 MAY 1967)

Fern T. Harms, 75, of Rt. 1, Withee (Clark Co., Wis.), died last Wednesday of a heart attack. He was born at Graymont, Ill. In 1891 and lived in Moline and Rock Island, Ill., and in Indiana before moving to Wisconsin after WWI. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany in 1917, and later that year he married Mary Detrick in Charlotte, N.C.

Mr. Harms farmed with his father in the Longwood and in 1926 he moved to Owen and worked at the Owen Box Factory and at the Carnation Milk Plant until his retirement. He and his wife lived with a daughter, Mrs. Harold Frey, Owen, and Mrs. Elmer Frey, eau Claire, until moving to their present home on Rt. 1, Withee in 1962. Mr. Harms was a charter member of the Owen Alliance Church.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Owen Alliance Church, with the Rev. Arnold Woodring officiating. Burial was in the Riverside Cemetery.

Surviving, in addition to his two daughters and wife are two sons, Fern D., Monroe, and Carl of Sturgis, S.D.; two sisters, Mrs. Jess Capes, Withee and Mrs. Glen Nicholson, Burlington, Wyo.; three brothers, Allen of Brook, Ind., Clarence of Rochester, Ind.; and Allen of Chicago; 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.