Obit: Amacher, Grace (1915 – 1974)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Amacher, Groenewold, Bockin, Seidel, Dingemann, Eggert

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 14 Feb 1974

Amacher, Grace (3 SEP 1915 – 12 FEB 1974)

Funeral services for Mrs. Fred Amacher will be held on Saturday, February 16, 1974 at 1:30 p.m. from St. John's Lutheran Church in Withee. Rev. Douglas R. Groenewold, pastor, will officiate, and burial will take place in Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Friends may call after 3 p.m. on Friday at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home.

Mrs. Amacher, 58, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), passed away on Tuesday night at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been taken on Monday night by the Owen ambulance, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.

The former Grace Bockin was born September 3, 1915 at Winchester. Her marriage to Fred P. Amacher took place June 28, 1936 at Stillwater, Minnesota.

After their marriage the couple resided in the town of Deer Creek in Taylor County until 1944, when they moved to the town of Longwood, Clark County, where they farmed and operated a sawmill. They purchased the Trading Post in Owen in 1956 and operated the grocery store under the name of Amacher's Trading Post, until 1967, when they sold the business to their son Dale. Mrs. Amacher helped with the business, working there until the time of her death. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Withee.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by three sons, Ronald, Withee, Bruce and dale, both of Owen; four daughters, Sherrie, Mrs. David Seidel, Viroqua, Shelbie, Mrs. Henry Dingemann, Flagstaff, Arizona, and Starla and Sheila, both of Owen, and eight grandchildren.

Other survivors include a sister, Leona, Mrs. Herman Eggert, Medford, and five brothers, Spencer and Glenn, both of Medford, Donovan, Stetsonville, Orin, Iola, and Wayne, Marinette.

One son and one sister preceded her in death.