Obit: Ravy, Clarence (1884 – 1968)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Ravy, Hagen, Herrick, Cook, Regall, Woods, Mellenthin,, Mitchell, Stevens, Heinbruch, Bacon

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 07 Mar 1968

Ravy, Clarence (25 MAY 1884 – 1 MAR 1968)

Clarence Ravy, 83, a former Unity and Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) resident, died March 1, 1968 at Sunny Vale Infirmary at Wausau of a heart attack.

Funeral services were held at the Lulloff Funeral Home, Colby, Monday, March 4 at 2 p.m.. The Rev. R. James Hagen officiated and burial was made in the town of Brighton Cemetery near Unity.

Mr. Ravy was born in Waupaca County May 25, 1884. His marriage to the former Myrtle Herrick took place June 17, 1908 at Medford, and the couple lived in the Curtiss and Stetsonville areas.

He was the manager of a lumber yard at Unity for many years, and during World War II, he worked in war plants at Milwaukee. The couple retired to Plainfield in 1945, and for trhe past three eyars had been living at the home of a daughter, Mrs. George Cook, at Unity.

While a resident of Curtiss, Mr. Ravy was a member of the Clark County Board, and he was also a member of the Equitable Reserve Association.

Surviving are his wife and four daughters, Mrs. George (Lloyd) Cook of Unity, Mrs. William (merle) Regall of Menomonee Falls, Mrs. Stanley (Lyle) Woods of Wausau, and Mrs. Harold (Ethelyn) Mellenthin, Beaver Dam.

There are seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are four sisters and a brother, Mrs. Xury (Kate) Mitchell and Mrs. Ben (Julia) Stevens of Oshkosh; Mrs. Gustav (Lottie) Heinbruch of Manawa; Mrs. Gladys Bacon of Riverside, Calif., and Laurence Ravy of Oshkosh. Two brothers and a sister preceded him in death.