Obit: Bjorn, Sylvia (? - 1961)

 

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: Bjorn, Winamaki, Humo, Kangas, Salmo, Bessenen

                       

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) August 17, 1961

 

Bjorn, Sylvia (? - 9 August 1961)

 

Mrs. Ensio Bjorn, nee Sylvia Winamaki, was born in the Town of Longwood 51 years ago. She was married to Ensio Bjorn on December 18, 1935.  One son, Rodney, still at home, was born to them.

 

Mrs. Bjorn died suddenly of a heart attack August 9, at her home in the Town of Longwood.

 

Funeral services were held in Owen on Saturday. A speaker from Trout Creek, Mich. Alex Bessenen officiated. Burial was made in Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

 

Besides her husband and son, three sisters, Mrs. Walter (Edith) Humo of Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. William (Ellen) Kangas of Owen, and Mrs. Mewen (Mamie) Salmo of Milwaukee, and two brothers, Wayne Winamaki, California and Ralph, in the U. S. Army, survive.

 

 


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