Obit: Stock, Rudolph (1893 – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Stock, Dix, Wiersig

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 27 Jul 1972

Stock, Rudolph (8 Oct 1893 – 23 Jul 1972)

Rites were conduction at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Church of Christ, Colby, for Rudolph Stock, 78, Colby, who died at 3:30 a.m. Sunday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, after suffering a stroke.

The Rev. Kenneth Dix, pastor, officiated, and burial was made in the Colby Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Stock was born in Manitowoc County, October 8, 1893, and as a young man worked there as a cheesemaker. In 1917 he purchased a cheese factory west of Colby, which he operated until 1924. Since that time he had lived on a farm west of Colby with his brother.

Survivors include two brothers, Arvin, Colby, and Herbert, St. Paul; and one sister, Mrs. Erna Wiesig, Colby.

He was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.