Obit: Andrews, Evalina #2 (1868 – 1962)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Andrews, Arms, Gauger, Ficke, Hoehne, Dye, Carlson

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 17 May 1962

Andrews, Evalina #2 (4 APR 1868 – 13 MAY 1962)

Mrs. Frank Andrews, 93, a resident of Clark County most of her life, died at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Clark County Hospital, Owen, where she had been a patient for one month. Death was caused by infirmities of old age.

The body was brought to the Hill Funeral Home, Greenwood.

The former Evalina May Arms, daughter of Joseph & Margaret (Dye) Arms, was born near, Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.), April 4, 1869. Her parents pioneered on a farm in the Spokeville community after coming from New York State. She attended the rural school and then took the two-year course at Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, to prepare herself for the teaching profession. She began teaching at the age of 16.

She taught in schools of Clark County, including 6 years in the Greenwood school, until her marriage September 8, 1901, at Greenwood, to Frank Andrews. In 1899, before her marriage, she took a course in nursing at Minneapolis.

Following her marriage, she made her home in Greenwood until shortly after the death of her husband, July 6, 1924. In 1926 she went to Detroit, Michigan to care for a sister who was ill. Six years later she returned to Wisconsin, where she had lived since, in recent years at Greenwood. She had been cared for in the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen for almost two years, until one month ago.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Albert (Elsie) Gauger of Arcadia, Wis.; Mrs. Herman (Esther) Ficke of Metaline Falls, Washington; and Mrs. George (Margaret) Hoehne of Greenwood; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.

Funeral service will be held at the Methodist Church in Greenwood, Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, with Rev. Gene Carlson officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Greenwood Cemetery.