Obit: Beyer, Fern Cleome #2 (1893 - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Beyer, Apker, Sloniker, Horn, Miller, Logue

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/25/1969

Beyer, Fern Cleome (14 October 1893 - 20 December 1969)

Mrs. Arnold Beyer, 76, of Greenwood, died Saturday in Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, where she was admitted December 10. Death was attributed to pneumonia.

Mrs. Beyer, the former Fern Cleome Sloniker, was born October 4, 1893, in Hillsboro to Joseph S. and Myrtle (Apker) Sloniker. She was married June 11, 1914, in Greenwood to Arnold Beyer. He died July 6, 1967. She was a graduate of Greenwood High School, class of 1911. She attended Oshkosh Teachers College and taught school for several years. After their marriage they lived in Greenwood for many years; 12 years in Alma Center and three years in Marshfield, where Mr. Beyer managed cheese factories. Mrs. Beyer went to reside in Memorial Home in Neillsville April 1, 1969. She was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ and its Women’s Guild.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Elmer (Floy) Horn of Chili and Mrs. Oscar (Zula) Miller of Greenwood; and a brother, Ross Sloniker of Greenwood.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from the Zion United Church of Christ. The Rev. David Logue officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.