Obit: Vornholt, Mark (1901-1981)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Vornholt, Baumel, James

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (25 April 1981)

Vornholt, Mark W. (28 December 1901 - 24 April 1981)

NEILLSVILLE -- Services for Mark W. Vornholt will be Monday at United Church of Christ. The Rev. Gary L. Clark is to officiate. Neillsville Cemetery will be the burial site. Friends may call at the Gesche Funeral Home.

Mr. Vornholt, 79, of 216 E. Division St., a rural mail carrier, was killed Friday in a car-truck accident.

Mr. Vornholt was born December 28, 1901 in Berne, Indiana and educated in southern Wisconsin and Sheboygan.

He worked at the Indian School after moving here, then worked at Madison for a year before returning to farm in the town of Grant several years.

In 1938, he returned to the Indian School and worked there 14 years. He also was employed by the state of Wisconsin a few years and later operated a service station with his son.

He had been a substitute rural mail carrier many years and the past two years was a full-time carrier.

He was a member of United Church of Christ and its church choir many years.

On August 26, 1936 at Neillsville, he and Grace M. Baumel were married. She survives.

Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Jesse (Ruth) James of Canoga Park, Californina; one son, Fred of Neillsville; two brothers, Walter of Maple Lake, Minnesota and Paul of Hot Springs, Arkansas; and 10 grandchildren. Three sons died in infancy. Two brothers also are deceased.