Obit: Gordee, Stella (1896 - 1974)

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

Surnames: Gordee, Anderson, Hium, Alperstett, Rear, Biernat, Wenger

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/23/1974

Gordee, Stella (28 October 1896 - 20 May 1974)

Funeral services are to be held this (Thursday) morning at 11 a.m. from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Greenwood, for Mrs. Harry Gordee, 77, of Greenwood, who died Monday afternoon at the Marshfield Convalescent Center. The Rev. David Wenger will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation was to begin Wednesday afternoon at the hill Funeral Home, Greenwood. After 9 a.m. today (Thursday) the body was to lie in state at the church.

Mrs. Gordee, the former Stella Hium, was born October 28, 1896, at West Prairie to Herman and Emma (Anderson) Hium. Her marriage to Harry Gordee took place in Greenwood February 26, 1920. The couple farmed in the Greenwood area until 1956, when they retired and moved to the city. Mr. Gordee preceded his wife in death on September 19, 1966. Mrs. Gordee was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and of its ALCA society, and of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. Melvin (Beulah) Alperstett of Greenwood, Mrs. Wayne (Verla) Rear, and Mrs. Raymond (Agnes) Biernat of Milwaukee and Miss Avis Gordee of Greenwood; three sons, Calvin and Earl Gordee of Marshfield and Everett Gordee of Milwaukee; and 20 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.