Obit: Decker, Ferdinand (1874 - 1950)

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Surnames: DECKER MILLER KRATZ GEISLER.

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wis.) 10/??/1950

Decker, Ferdinand (18 MAR 1874 - 30 SEP 1950)

Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) - Ferdinand Decker, 76, Greenwood, died Saturday (Sep. 30, 1950) at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been a patient at the hospital since Sept. 24.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday at his home and at 2 p.m., at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church, Greenwood. The Rev. J.C. Klingeberger will officiate and burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

The body is reposing at the Schiller Funeral Home. Tuesday noon it will be taken to the Decker home to repose until the time of services.

Mr. Decker was born March 18, 1874, on a farm west of Greenwood. He ad resided there all his life.

He is survived by his wife, two children, Walter Decker, Chicago; and Mrs. Arno (Lillian) Miller, Greenwood; two grandchildren, Joanne and Sharon Miller; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Kratz, Fond du Lac; and Mrs. ed Geisler, Cornell; and one brother, Otto Decker, Marshfield.