Obit: Arndt, Frank W. (1899 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Arndt, Groenewold, Robersen, Mengel, Anderson, Lindberg, Evans, Peterson

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 25 Feb 1976

Arndt, Frank W. (22 Jul 1899 – 20 Feb 1976)

Frank William Arndt, Route 2, Withee, died at 6:30 a.m. Friday at Victory Memorial Hospital in Stanley. He was 76 years of age.

Services were held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home in Owen. Officiating was Rev. Douglas R. Groenewold, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Withee. Burial was made in Riverside Cemetery.

Mr. Arndt was born July 22, 1899 in Rock Island, Illinois. He married the former Myrtle Robersen on December 20, 1926, at Withee.

He came to the Withee area at the age of 6. He had a coal business and scrap metal business in Owen from 1934 to 1953, when he moved to a farm in the Town of Hixon.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, George, Caledonia, and Kenneth and Robert, both at home; four daughters, Mrs. Robert (Joyce) Mengel, Neillsville, Mrs. Harvey (Velda) Anderson, Withee, Mrs. Robert (Barbara) Anderson, Owen, and Mrs. Wayne (Dolly) Lindberg, Abbotsford; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Evan, Fox River Grove, Ill.; a brother, Wesley, Janesville; a half-sister, Mrs. George (Ruby) Peterson, Chippewa Falls; a half-brother, Alfred Arndt, Owen; 23 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and three grandchildren.