Obit: Laken, Frank #2 (1890 - 1971)

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

Surnames: Laken, Mlaker, Tolaney, Dergance, Berg, Verschay, Bradish, Koopman

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 1/06/1972

Laken, Frank (6 December 1890 - 31 December 1971)

Frank Laken of Greenwood died last Friday afternoon in Neillsville, where he had entered Memorial Home three weeks ago.

Mr. Laken, son of John and Theresa (Mlaker) Laken was born December 6, 1890, in Austria. He came to Ottawa, Il, as a young boy and to the Willard area in 1914. Mr. Laken was married May 29, 1917, in Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard to Mary Tolaney, who survives him. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1967. He purchased land and cleared it for farming and then farmed in Willard for 36 year before retiring in 1953 and moving to Greenwood.

Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Matt (Helen) Dergance of Hillside, Il., Mrs. Otto (Mary Ann) Berg of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Joseph (Josephine) Verschay of Owen; a son, George, of Lyons, Il; eight grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Josie Bradish, and a brother, Mike Laken, both of Ottawa, Il.

Funeral services were held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Hill Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenwood. The Rev. Leander Koopman officiated. Burial was made in the Holy Family Cemetery in Willard.
           

 

 


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