Obit: Wollum, Hazel (1898 – 1971)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wollum, Peterson, Cattanach, Anderson, Wagner, Munson, Grimes, Brown, Sabol, Vater

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06 May 1971

Wollum, Hazel (1 OCT 1898 – 05 MAY 1971)

The community (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) learned yesterday forenoon of the death of one of its pioneer residents, Mrs. Henry M. Wollum, 73, who succumbed to a lingering illness at 5:45 a.m. at Memorial Hospital in Eagle River. She was taken to Eagle River via city ambulance Friday of last week and was accompanied by her husband, Henry. She was hospitalized there, and Henry was making his home with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Wollum.

Funeral services are planned for two o'clock Friday afternoon, May 7, 1970, from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, with Rev. Hilding Peterson, pastor of the United Church of Christ, officiating, with burial to be made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers will be Bert Cattanach, Carl Vater, Henry V. Anderson, Ray Wagner, Mineas Munson, and S.E. Grimes.

Mrs. Wollum, nee Hazel Brown, was born October 1, 1898 in Withee, and attended the school system there, and was a member of the school's first high school graduating class. On May 31, 1920 she and Henry Wollum were united in marriage in a ceremony performed at Duluth, Minnesota, and thereafter the couple made their home in Owen.

Mrs. Wollum has been active in the affairs of her church throughout the years, and was a Past Worth Matron of the Eastern Star Lodge.

Her passing is mourned by her husband, Henry; two sons, William Wollum of Eagle River and Henry M. Wollum of York, Pennsylvania; a daughter, Mrs. John (Judith) Sabo, Itasca, Ill.; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.