Obit: Mayo, Minnie P. (1885 - 1959)

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Surnames: Mayo, Purgett, Boughton

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 11/26/1959

Mayo, Minnie P. (26 SEP 1885 - 19 NOV 1959)

Mrs. David Mayo passed away a week ago this evening at the Havenet Nursing Home, city, where she had been a resident patient for several weeks, since being dismissed from St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield.  She succumbed to a lingering liver illness.

Rev. Ralph Claybaugh of the First Congregational Church, Owen, officiated at services held at 2:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home.  Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.  Serving as pallbearers were Oscar Neibacker, Arlyn Thompson, Stanley Bartosiak and Harold Schopfer.  In charge of the floral offerings were Mesdames John Hemminger, Stanley Bartosiak, Arlyn Thompson, Oscar Neibacker and Joseph Heibsch.

Mrs. Mayo, nee Minnie Pearl Purgett, was born September 26, 1885, at Watseka, Ill.  She received her early education in Illinois schools and on the 16^th of Feb., 1908, she and David Mayo were united in wedlock at Woodland, Ill.  Eleven years later the couple moved to this community, settling on their present homestead on rt. 2, Owen (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.), six miles north of here on County Trunk D, where they successfully farmed for the past 40 years.  During these many years she was active in church work, as well as being especially active as a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Her passing is mourned by her husband, one sister, Maggie Boughton of Stillwater, Okla., and two brothers, George Purgett of Woodland, Ill. and Earl of Sadan, Ill.  She was preceded in death by a sister, Mabel, and two brothers, Karl and Eugene Purgett.