Obit: Krei, Theodore #3 (1906 -1974)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Krei, Lewis, Petkovsek, Spears, Camarin

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 9/26/1974

Krei, Theodore (4 April 1906 – 18 September1974)

Theodore Krei, 68, Rt. 3, Greenwood, died September 18 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where he was admitted four weeks ago.

Mr. Krei, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Krei, was born April 12, 1906, at Wayne, Nebr., where he received his education. He was married December 20, 1938 at Wayne, Nebr., to Teresa Lewis. After their marriage thy lived in Wayne County, Nebr., until 1957, when they moved here and settled, on a farm nine-miles northwest of Greenwood, in the Braun Settlement area, and had resided there ever since.

He was a member of Immanuel United Church of Greenwood.

Surviving are, his wife, two sons, Harold of Greenwood, and Theodore, Jr., of Chippewa Falls, and a daughter, Mrs. James (Janet) Petkovsek of Greenwood; three grandchildren; a brother, Walter Kriei of Laurel, Nebr.; a sister, Mrs. Rollie (Amelia) Spears of Bakersfield, Ca.; a half-brother and two half-sisters.

Funeral services were held Saturday from Immanuel United Church in Greenwood, with the Rev. Pacifico Camarin officiating. Burial was made in Forest Hill Cemetery.