Obit: Merkun, Johana (1881? - 1974)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Merkun, Robertson, Lesar, Mertens

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/26/1974

Surnames: Merkun, Robertson, Lesar, Mertens

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/26/1974

Merkun, Johana (1881? - 17 December 1974)

Mrs. Johana Merkun, 93, former Willard resident, died at Ely, MN., last Tuesday.

Mrs. Merkun had been in the Gorman area farming some time ago with her husband, and after his death she made her home with her niece, Mrs. Hannah Robertson, in Ely. She is well-known here.

Funeral services were held at Ely and her body was take by plane to Marshfield and by ambulance to Willard, with burial in the Holy Family Cemetery at Willard Friday.

She is survived by her niece and nephews.

The following article was elsewhere in the issue.

Mrs. Hannah Robertson and son of Ely, MN., accompanied the body of Mrs. Johana Merkum, 94, last Friday for burial at Willard in Holy Family Catholic Cemetery. It was brought by plane to Eau Claire and not from Marshfield, as previously stated and then by ambulance to Willard.

Louis Lesar, Sr., of Ely, MN., was also here for brief funeral rites at the grave site. The Rev. Michael Mertens officiated. Friends from Willard were present for the rites.