Obit: Afkend, Hazel (1908 – 1968)

Transcriber: Pam Harders - posted4u@charter.net 

Surnames: Afkend, Kutcher, Dankemyer, Johnson

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 18 Apr 1968

Afkend, Hazel (24 FEB 1908 – 15 APR 1968)

Mrs. Clayton Afkend, 69, of Abbotsford, died following a lingering illness at 12:03a.m., Monday, April 15, 1968, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she was a patient since February 24.

The body lay in state at the Polnaszek Funeral Home, Abbotsford, from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday , when it was taken at eleven o'clock to Christ Lutheran Church for services at 2 o'clock. The Rev. F.H. Sprengler officiated, and burial was made in the Abbotsford Cemetery.

Hazel Kutcher was born February 24, 1908 at Minneapolis, Minn., and was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. She went with her parents to Wisconsin and lived in Jackson County, then to Chili, where she received her grade school education. She attended McKinley High School in Marshfield.

Her marriage to Ervin Dankemyer took place June 6, 1929. He died August 9, 1945.

On October 1, 1947, she and Clayton Afkend were married at Dubuque, Iowa. Soon after, they went into the grocery business in Marshfield, and in 1949 moved to Abbotsford and operated an IGA Store. They built the present IGA Foodliner on Highway 13, and in 1960 sold it and retired.

Mrs. Afkend was a member of Christ Lutheran Church and a charter member of the Priscilla Guild.

Surviving are her husband and one sister, Mrs. Lester Johnson of Marshfield.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, her parents and a brother.

 

 

 


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