Obit: Boushon, Robert (1926-1981)

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

Surnames: Boushon, Sydow, Koffler, Bock, Wittman

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (24 June 1981)

Boushon, Robert C. (14 September 1926 - 23 June 1981)

Robert C. Boushon, 54, Route 1, died Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was admitted Monday. Death followed a lingering illness.

The funeral will be Saturday at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Bakerville. Mrs. Donald Larson will provide music. The Rev. Myron J. Meinen will officiate. Friends may call at Rembs/Kundinger Chapel.

He was born September 14, 1926 in the town of Fremont, Clark County, and attended schools there. He was a gunner on a tanker from 1944 to 1946 in the U.S. Army. He then was employed at Gripentrog Cheese Factory for six years. For three years, he was in the construction and electrical trades at various businesses here.

For the past 25 years, he was employed by Hub City Food Inc. until he retired in August 1980 due to illness.

On August 26, 1952, he married Elizabeth "Betty" Sydow at St. John's Catholic Church here. She survives.

He was a member of St. John's Catholic Church and Corpus Christi Catholic Church and prior to marriage belonged to Christ Lutheran Church, Chili.

Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons, Daniel R. of Marshfield and Darwin J and Douglas J., both at home; one daughter, Debra J., at home; one granddaughter; six brothers, Arthur and Harold, both of Marshfield, James, Donald and Ronald, all of Chili, and Richard of Spencer; three sisters, Miss Lorraine Boushon of Sheboygan, Mrs. Louie (Laura) Koffler of Ogema, and Frances Bock of Marshfield; and his father, Frank Boushon of Chili.

His mother, Ida Wittman Boushon, died June 30, 1959, a sister died in 1939 and a brother in 1967.