Obit: Birkholz, Alfred (1898 – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Birkholz, Omdal, Guth, Marcott, Accola, Freitag

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 03 Feb 1972

Birkholz, Alfred (5 Aug 1898 – 30 Jan 1972)

Alfred Birkholz, 73, Rt. 1, Medford, was dead on arrival at Memorial hospital in Medford at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A funeral service was conducted Wednesday at Polnaszek Funeral Home in Abbotsford. Mr. Erling Omdal officiated, and burial was made in the Dorchester Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Birkholz was born August 5, 1898 in Brown County, Wisconsin. He married Amber Guth in Medford on March 4, 1925.

Moving to Dorchester with his parents as a boy, he later worked as a cheesemaker in Omega, Medford and Stetsonville. He started an electrical shop in 1939.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Leon (Arliss) Marcott, Abbotsford, and Mrs. Neal (Elva) Accola, Pittsville; a sister, Ernest Freitag of Milwaukee; two brothers, Otto, GFR, Medford, and Theodore, Bethel Convalescent Home in Arpin; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.