Obit: Cressy, Maxine (1908 - 1979)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Cressy, McKennon, Dolle, Geist, Briski, Ormond, Osowski

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/15/1979

Cressy, Maxine (17 September 1908 – 13 November 1979)

Mrs. Maxine Cressy, 71, Maple lane Mobile Home Court, Loyal, died Wednesday in St. Joseph Hospital, Marshfield, where she was admitted Monday.

Mrs. Cressy, the former Maxine McKennon, was born September 17, 1908, in Chicago, where she received her education and worked for the U.S. Army in the Quartermaster Corps, for ten years. She also had been employed as a beautician for 20 years.

In 1960, she moved to New Lisbon and came to this area in 1973. Her first marriage was to George Dolle in June 1927. In 1943, she married Clifford Cressy in Rock Island, Ill. He died in August 1972. She was a member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Loyal.

She is survived by a son Kenneth Dolle, Rt. 3 Greenwood; a sister Mrs. Mary Geist, Loyal; 23 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. A son, a sister and two brothers are deceased.

A prayer service was held Friday at the Rinka Funeral Home in Greenwood. Funeral services were held Satruday in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Loyal with the Rev. Chester Osowski officiating, with burial made in the Greenwood Cemetery, with pallbearers Kenneth Dolle, David Dolle, Thomas Dolle, Phillip Dolle, Thomas Briski, Anthony Dolle and Walter Ormond.