Obit: Knight, Edna E. (1916 - 1999)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Beard, Blackert, Knight, Olson, Plautz, Pratt, Schueler, Willms, Wojcik

----Source: The Dallmann-Kniewel Funeral Home (Rib Lake, WI) 8/14/1999

Knight, Edna E. (Pratt) (16 JAN 1916 - 12 AUG 1999)

Edna E. Knight, 83, of the Town of Hill, died Thursday, August 12, 1999, at her home under the care of Hope Hospice.

Funeral services were held Monday, August 16, at First Lutheran Church in Ogema with Rev. Tim Schueler officiating. Burial was held in Mount Olive Cemetery in Westboro.

Pallbearers were Joseph, John, Scott, and Eric Wojcik, Rocky and Wade Knight, and Keith Willms.

Dallmann-Kniewel Funeral Home in Rib Lake was in charge of arrangements.

The former Edna E. Pratt was born January 26, 1916, in Tampico, Ill., to Ralph and Hilda (Olson) Pratt. She attended area schools in Tampico and was a school mate of Ronald Reagan while attending high school there. Her marriage to Melvin Knight took place in August 1932 in Tampico.

She and her husband farmed in Illinois and in 1944, moved from Dixon to Wisconsin where they also farmed. She also drove school bus for the former Leavitt Creek School, worked at the former Gem Products shoe factory in Rib Lake and was an Avon representative. She enjoyed traveling and spending winters in Texas and the South. She also enjoyed gardening, flowers, crafts, and fishing. She was a member of First Lutheran Church and of the Hill Homemakers Club.

Survivors include her husband, Melvin; three sons, Everett (Mary Jo), Arlie (Carol) and William Knight, all of Ogema; a daughter, Sharon (Joe) Wojcik of Westboro; three sisters, Alice Blackert of Princeton, Ill., Emma Mae Beard of Hemet, Calif., and Martha Plautz of Zebulon, N.C.; a sister-in-law, Alice Pratt of Profitstown, Ill.; 14 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Everett Pratt; and one granddaughter, Laura Knight.