Obit:

Franz, Calvin (1893 - 1972)

Contact:

Stan

Email:

stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames:

FRANZ DECKER ALBERT


----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/ /1972


CALVIN FRANZ


Greenwood--Calvin Franz, 78, a lifelong resident of the Greenwood, Clark County area, died at 10:15 a.m. Monday, Jan. 24, 1972 at the Memorial Home at Neillsville, where he had been a patient since June 16, 1971.


Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Immanuel United Church of Christ here, with the Rev. Pacifico Camarin, pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery. Here.


Visitation may be made at the Hill Funeral Home from Thursday afternoon and after 11 a.m. Friday at the church.


Military rites will be conducted at the graveside by members of the Wallis-Hinker Post of the Greenwood American Legion.


Mr. Franz was born Dec. 17, 1893 in the Town of Warner, and was married there Sept. 21, 1921 to Meta Decker, who preceded him in death Feb. 23, 1969. After their marriage they farmed near Greenwood, and in 1948 they moved to the city of Greenwood and had since made their home here.


He was a World War I veteran, a member of Immanuel United Church of Christ and the Wallis-Hinker Legion Post of Greenwood.


Survivors include two brothers, Otto Franz, Mesa, Ariz. and Harold Franz, Sidney, Mont. and a sister, Mrs. Alvin (Leona) Albert, Greenwood.


In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by a sister and two brothers.

 

 


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