Obit: Vollrath, George W. (1886 - 1968)

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Surnames: VOLLRATH DAHLBY RAHM PLANK SCHWARZE METCALF SPEICH GERLACH

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1968

Vollrath, George W. (1886 - 1968)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--George W. Vollrath, 82, a lifelong resident of the Greenwood area, died at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1968 at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, where the had been a patient since Sept. 7, following a stroke.

Funeral services will be held in Our Savior's Lutheran Church here at 2 p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Arvid Myhrwold officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood from Friday noon until 11 a.m. Saturday, and then at the church.

Mr. Vollrath was born in the Clark County Town of Warner on March 24, 1886, and had farmed in that area until his retirement, when he moved to Greenwood.

His marriage to Mrs. Anne Dahlby, who survives him, took place in Greenwood March 21, 1935.

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Walter (Onetta) Rahm, Wilkinson, Ind. two step-daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Plank, Greenwood, and Mrs. Albert (Alvera) Schwarze, Granton a stepson, Orton Dahlby, Cornell three grandchildren two great-grandchildren two brothers, Ernest Vollrath, Greenwood, and Bernard Vollrath, Caro, Mich. and three sisters, Mrs. Clara Metcalf and Mrs. Ida Speich, Greenwood and Mrs. Emma Gerlach, Neillsville.