Obit: DeLong, Earl H. (1898 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 
Surnames: DeLong, Yaggie, O’Leary, Burchell, Ranta

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 14 Jan 1976

DeLong, Earl H. (31 Aug 1898 – 7 Jan 1976)

Services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home in Owen for Earl Herbert Delong, 77, Withee. He died of an apparent heart attack at 5:30 a.m., Wednesday, January 7, 1976 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, where he had been admitted on Tuesday.

The Rev. Lloyd Yaggie, pastor of Nazareth Lutheran Church in Withee, conducted the services. Interment was made in the Withee Riverside Cemetery.

Mr. DeLong was born August 31, 1898 at Humbird, and graduated from the Humbird High School in 1919. He worked at the Hamilton Manufacturing Co. at Two Rivers from 1923 to 1948. He then farmed near Humbird until moving to the Owen-Withee area in 1961.

Mr. DeLong married the former Velva O’Leary on July 23, 1922, at Humbird. She survives.

Other survivors include five sons, Ronald, Owen, Gerald, Withee, Russell, Two Rivers, and Mark and Owen, both of Cleveland, Wis.; a daughter, Miss Coralee DeLong, Two Rivers; a sister, Mrs. John (Eleanor) Burchell, Humbird; 15 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a daughter and a brother.

Casket bearers were Ronald, Russell, Mark, Owen, and Lawrence DeLong, and Taino Ranta.