Obit: Washburn, Asa A. (1908 - 1980)

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

Surnames: Washburn, Taylor, Noble

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 4/24/1980

Washburn, Asa A. (4 April 1908 – 16 April 1980)

Asa A. Washburn, 72, a longtime Humbird resident, passed away in Black River Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, April 16. The deceased was born in Humbird on April 4, 1908, to Frank and Elizabeth (Taylor) Washburn. After receiving her education there, she worked in Humbird for many years. She was employed by a telephone company, the Clark County Forestry Department and its Highway Department, retiring several years ago. She had been a resident of the Pine View Nursing Home in Black River Falls for the past nine years due to failing health.

She left no immediate survivors. She was preceded in death by four brothers.

Funeral services were held Saturday early afternoon, April 19, from the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville with burial made in the Town of Mentor Cemetery. The Rev. William Noble of the Neillsville United Methodist Church officiated.