Obit: McCready, Thomas (? - 1982)

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

Surnames: McCready, Bobb, Laffe

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/24/1982

McCready, Thomas (? - 15 June 1982)

Thomas McCready, 82, former Humbird resident, died June 15 at the Osseo Nursing Home.

McCready was born in Morrisonville, Illinois, and came to Wisconsin where he graduated from Northwestern Telegraphy School in Eau Claire in 1918. He worked as a telegraph operator and station agent for Chicago and North Western Railway Company for 47 years, some of which were in Humbird, Black River Falls and Menomonie.

He married Grace M. Bobb on September 19, 1929, Stillwater, Minnesota.

Survivors include a stepdaughter, Marjorie Laffe, Humbird, a stepson, Harry M. Bobb, Eau Claire; and nieces and nephews.

Services were held June 17 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Menomonie, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery in Menomonie. The Stanton Funeral Home in Menomonie was in charge of arrangements.