Obit: Bacon, Mable (Mabel?) B. (1892 – 1971)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Bacon, Kringle, Hutchison, Petke, Redmond, Olesky

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04 Mar 1971

Bacon, Mable (Mabel?) B. (22 FEB 1892 – 2 MAR 1971)

Mrs. Chris Bacon, a resident of Owen for the past 69 years, succumbed to a heart condition and passed away at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley, on Tuesday, March 2, 1971. She had been in failing health the past several weeks.

Funeral services will be conducted for her today at two o'clock from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home. Rev. Lester Kringle, pastor of the Alliance Church, will conduct the service, with burial to be made at Riverside Cemetery. Her three sons and three sons-in-law will serve as pallbearers.

Mrs. C. Bacon, the former Mable Blanche Hutchison, was born February 22, 1892 in Dunn County, Wisconsin. She received her education in the school system at Medford, and later graduated from the Taylor County Normal, and taught school for several years in Taylor County.

On June 6, 1911 she and the late Chris Bacon untied in marriage in a ceremony performed at Medford. One year later the couple moved to Owen, where she has ever since resided.

She is survived by three sons, Royal Bacon, Monroe; Rolland Bacon of Flint, Michigan, and John Bacon of Owen; three daughters, Mrs. Ernest (Ruth) Petke, Johnson Creek; Mrs. Harold (Mary) Redmond, Holcombe, and Mrs. Henry (Marny Lou) Oleski, Hartford, Conn.

Her husband preceded her in death, passing away in 1955.