Obit: Binning, Floyd (1911 – 1969)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Binning, Pankow, Laack, Chudyk, Selk, Fisher

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 02/20/1969

Binning, Floyd (27 SEP 1911 – 14 FEB 1969)

Floyd Binning, 57, Unity, died Friday morning, February 14, 1969 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield.

Funeral services were held Monday, February 17, at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Colby, with the Rev. David Pankow officiating. Burial was made in Colby Memorial Cemetery.

The Lulloff Funeral Home was in charge of the funeral arrangements.

Mr. Binning was born in the Town of Brighton (Marathon Co., Wis.), September 27, 1911. He married Elva Laack June 1, 1937 at St. Peters’ parsonage in Dorchester.

He was a cheesemaker for H.E. Mandel for 12 years, worked for the railroad and operated a hardware store in Unity from 1945 to 1952. For the last nine years he worked as a foreman in the cabinet shop of Pathfinder Mobile Home at Spencer. He served on the Unity Village Board, was village assessor and a volunteer fire department and sportsman club member. He was also a member of the Zion Lutheran Church.

Survivors, besides his wife, include three daughters, Bonnie (Mrs. Frank Chudyk) of Unity, Billie (Mrs. Alvord Selk) of Chili, and Patricia at home; one son, Michael, at home; five grandchildren; four brothers, Kenneth of Minneapolis, Clifford of Unity, Milford and Earl of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Duane (Merle) Fisher of Minneapolis. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Inga Binning of Marshfield.