Obit: Kilty, William (1887 – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 
Surnames: Kilty, Primley, Gottschalk, Matson

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 09 Mar 1972

Kilty, William (2 Oct 1887 – 28 Feb 1972)

(Note: Full birth date and death date from Unity Trinity Cemetery listing)

William Kilty, age 84, of Unity died at the Greenwood Home for the aged on Monday. He had been living there the past 14 years.

Funeral services were held at the trinity Lutheran Church in Unity on Thursday afternoon, with the Rev. James Primley officiating.

Burial was in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery.

Mr. Kilty was born in the Town of Unity in 1887, and in 1913 married the former Florence Matson. He received his education in the local schools and farmed his entire life in the Town of Unity, until 1951. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Unity.

Survivors are his eight children, Melvin of Edgar, Vern of Athens, Robert of Spencer, Marvin, Colby, Kenneth, Lyle and Donald, Unity; Mrs. Harvey (Lorraine) Gottschalk of Unity; 34 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

His wife, one daughter and a son, two brothers and a sister preceded him in death.