Obit: Conrad, Oscar C. (1917 -1980)

Transcriber: Nina Watkins
Email: nina@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Conrad, Taube, Schmidt, Greenberg

Source ---- Marshfield New Herald (Marshfield, WI) 10/7/1980

Conrad, Oscar C.

Funeral Services for Oscar C. Conrad will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Hansen Chapel.

The Rev. Homer Roberts, minister of visitation at First Presbyterian Church is to officiate. Carol Snelling will provide music.

Brooklawn Memory Gardens will be the burial site. American Legion Post 54 will conduct military rites there.

Art Schoenfeldt, Del Allgood, Robert Burt, Donald Bassuener, Michael Schmidt and Robert Moesenthin are to serve as pallbearers.

Friends may call from 2-9 p.m. today and until services Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mr. Conrad, 63, formerly of 303 W. Upham St., died Monday morning at Marshfield Convalescent Center. He was a patient there since 1975.

He was born Jan. 13, 1917 in Veefkind, town of Sherman, Clark County, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl (Lena Taube) Conrad. He attended Veefkind and rural Clark County Schools.

During World War II, he served with the Army-Air Force at Shepard Air Force Base in England. He then returned to this area and was employed by Felker Bros. Corp. and later was plant manager for Asphalt Products in Stevens Point. Ill health forced his retirement in 1973.

He was a member of the Marshfield Saddle Club and First Presbyterian Church.

His marriage to Delores Van Epps took place here Jan. 23, 1946. She died Nov. 21, 1977.

Mr. Conrad is survived by two sons, Dennis Conrad, Route 5, Marshfield, and Douglas Conrad, Kemah, Texas; three grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. George (Loren) Schmidt, Marshfield, and Mrs. Ervin (Ann) Greenberg, Chicago; and a brother, Alfred Conrad, Marshfield. One sister is deceased.