Obit: Wicker, Fannie (1877 – 1974)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Wicker, Schroerlucke, Hart

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 31 Oct 1974

Wicker, Fannie (1 Jan 1877 – 25 Oct 1974)

Services were held for Fannie Wicker, 97, on Monday, October 28, 1974 at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church with Rev. Keith Schroerlucke officiating. Mrs. Wicker passed away later Friday night, October 25, 1974 at the Colonial House of Colby. She was buried in the Colby Memorial Cemetery.

Born on January 1, 1877 in South Dakota, the former Fannie Hart married George Wicker on June 24, 1905. She received her education in Marshall, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Wicker came to Colby in 1903 and worked as a telephone operator until she and her husband farmed on the homestead farm until 1949.

She was Colby’s oldest resident and was honored as such as Queen of the Centennial a year ago this past summer.

She was a member of the Colby United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women’s Circle.

She was preceded in death by her husband, who passed away in 1959, and a son who died in April 1974.