Obit: Voss, Nelda (1918 -1997)

Transcriber: Nina Watkins
Email: nina@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Voss, Weiting, Carl

---- Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI)

Voss, Nelda

LOYAL – Nelda Helen Voss, 79, of N9012 E. Island Road, Phillips, died at 12 p.m. Oct. 9, 1997, at St. Joseph’s Hospital hospice home, House of the Dove, in Marshfield.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Rinka Funeral Home in Loyal. The Rev. Gary Lodholz will officiate.

Burial will be in Loyal Lutheran Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Craig Voss, James Voss, Steven Voss, Jeffrey Voss, Jerrold Voss, and Michael Voss.

Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday and again from 9 a.m. until service time Monday, both at the funeral home.

She was born July 10, 1918, in rural Neillsville to Alfred and Clara (Weiting) Carl. She was married to Herbert Voss on Sept. 27, 1947 in Milwaukee.

Nelda was born and raised in the Neillsville area. She was educated in the Lutheran school in Neillsville and Neillsville High School. After her education she worked for three years in Milwaukee doing domestic work. She then moved back to Neillsville to care for her mother. After her mother’s death, she worked in restaurants in the Neillsville and Loyal areas. She then met and married her husband. They farmed in rural Loyal until retiring in 1979. They remained on the farm and after her husband’s death she continued to live on the farm until her husband’s death. She continued to reside on the farm until 1981 when she moved to Phillips. She resided in Phillips until May 1997 when she moved to Granton to live with her son.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Phillips and the Sioux Lake Snowmobile Club.

She is survived by her sons, Kenneth Voss of Neillsville and Wayne (JoAnn) Voss of Granton; eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; by her brother Arnold (Florence) Carl of Neillsville; and by her sister-in-law of Selma Voss.

She was preceded in death by her husband in August 1987; her parents; and a brother, Victor Carl.