Obit: Welzien, Mildred “Millie” L. (1924 - 2013)

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

Surnames: Welzien, Daley, Hobbs, Spencer, Buroker, Holmes, Bell

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co, WI) 8/07/2013

Welzien, Mildred “Millie” L. (10 April 1924 - 1 August 2013) With Flag

Mildred “Millie” L. Welzien, age 89, of Cadott, passed away on Thursday, August 1, 2013, at the Chippewa Manor Nursing home.

Millie was born April 10, 1924, in Summitville, Indiana, the daughter of the late Oral & Cesta (Daley) Hobbs. She grew up in Indiana and graduated from Lagro High School in 1942. She then served in the medical Corps of the Women’s Army Corps Service during World War II. On April 13, 1946, she was united in marriage to Clarence Welzien. They spent their lives farming in the Greenwood and then the Boyd area with Millie also working as a nurse for Victory Memorial Hospital in Stanley and later at the Chippewa County Health Care Center, Chippewa Falls. She was a former member of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Stanley, and currently was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Cadott. She loved to travel, spend time with family and friends and was an avid reader.

Millie is survived by her daughter, Nancy Florence of Minneapolis, MN; two sons: David (Nancy) Welzien of Tigerton, WI, and Dan (Corazon) Welzien of San Antonio, TX; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two brothers: Merrill Hobbs of Wabash, Indiana, and Rex Hobbs of north Carolina; one sister: Janice (Les) Spencer of Jacksonville, Florida; plus many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clarence, in 2003; one son, Michael, in 1980; sisters: Margaret Buroker and Wilma Holmes; and one brother, Richard Hobbs.

Services were held on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at the Plombon Funeral Home in Stanley with Pastor Raymond Bell officiating. Burial followed in the Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Visitation was Monday evening from 5-7 p.m. at the Plombon Funeral Home, Stanley.