Obit: Whitford, Evelyn (1909 – 1941)
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Surnames: Whitford, Whiteford, Raabe, Stapel, O’Connor, Ayer, Johnson

----Source: Scrapbook Collection of Arlene Youmans

Whitford, Evelyn (16 Nov. 1909 – 2 Nov. 1941)

Spencer -Mrs. Allen J. Whiteford, 31, former Spencer resident died, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Mount View Sanatorium, Wausau, following an illness of two years.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:45 P.M. at the Swarthout Funeral Home, where the body will lie in state, and at 2 o'clock at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. C. Stapel, pastor, will officiate at the services and burial will be made in the Spencer cemetery.

Mrs. Whitford, nee Evelyn Olivia Raabe, was born in Spencer Nov. 16, 1909, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Raabe. She was educated at Spencer and graduated from the Spencer High School and St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Marshfield.

She was married to Alan J. Whitford on Oct. 3, 1932, in Rockford, Ill. For the past three years the couple have made their home in Milwaukee and during part of that time Mrs. Whitford was a patient at Muirdale Sanatorium, Wauwatosa. She entered Mount View, Wausau, about six months ago.

Surviving her are her husband, two children, Pat O'Connor and Joan Virginia, her step-father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Ayer, Spencer. A sister, Mrs. Alan (Armanda) Johnson, Rapid City, S. Dakota; four brothers, George Raabe, Stevens and Werner Raabe, Baraboo; 10 nieces and nephews also survive her.

Her father August Raabe, preceded her in death on April 11, 1911 and a brother, Carlyn, died May 22, 1937.

Mr. Whitford has been a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital, for the past 10 days *** Note: The rest of the article was missing. Her death date is from the Trinity Lutheran Church records.

 

 


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