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Metcalf, James (b. , d. ?)
Given Name: James
Change: Date: 11 JUN 2003
Given Name: Jacob (Jake)
Change: Date: 8 NOV 2003
Given Name: John
Change: Date: 11 JUN 2003
Note: Place of birth is from marriage certificate.
Given Name: August H.
Occupation: Carpenter
Change: Date: 12 OCT 2010
Given Name: George
Change: Date: 27 JUN 2005
Given Name: Alma Lerna
Change: Date: 27 JUN 2005
Given Name: Oscar
Change: Date: 27 JUN 2005
Note: Subject: Gemmeke, Edward (1908 - 1978)
Posted by: Stan
Email: Posted4U@Charter.net
Surnames: GEMMEKE
Message:
EDWARD GEMMEKE
(Editors Note The following information was all that was received from the writer. Details of the funeral were not made available so we are print the letter intact).
My father, Edward Theodore Gemmeke passed away Nov. 20, 1978. It was his request that when this time came, to put a notice in the Tribune-Record-Gleaner. My father was born in Greenwood, Clark County, Wis. on Nov. 18, 1908. He served 22 years in the United States Marine Corps. He was a Master Sergeant. He served in World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Batan Death March. He was a prisoner of war for three years. He was awarded numerous medals, but I cannot determine what they all mean except the Purple Heart, and good conduct medal with six awards.
Needless to say my father s life was for his country. We are free today because of the many wonderful men like my father. He was buried Nov. 24, 1978 in the Beufort South Carolina National Cemetery. He was residing at the United States Naval Home in Gulfport, Miss., at the time of his tragic death. He fell from the 5th floor to the 3rd. The home is so designed you can see from floor to floor on the inside.
His grandsons are Christopher Edward and Randall Spiros Pontikakis.
Thank You,
Edward Pontikakis
SOURCE: TRIBUNE-RECORD-GLEANER 12/06/1978
Given Name: Edwin (Eddie) Theodore
Change: Date: 29 SEP 2009
Given Name: Emma
Change: Date: 11 JUN 2003
Note: ADOLPH RASMUSSEN
Greenwood - Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at our Savior's Lutheran Church for Adolph Rasmussen, 81, Greenwood, Clark County, who died Tuesday noon, Jan. 22, 1963 at the Bethel Convalescent Home in Arpin, where he had been a resident for the past two years. He had been in poor health for a year and a half.
The Rev. Arvid Myhrwold will officiate and burial will be made in the Forest Hill cemetery in the Braun Settlement.
Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home from this evening until 11 a.m. Saturday when the body will be taken to the church.
Mr. Rasmussen was born April 11, 1881, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was married in Houghton, Mich., in 1908 to Ethel Iverson, who died in 1914. His second marriage was to Bertha Blecha, in Greenwood on Nov. 18, 1924. She died Oct. 6, 1925.
He came to the United States in 1901 to Houghton, Mich., and later moved to Racine. In 1931 he came to Greenwood and farmed seven miles northwest of here, retiring in 1945, when he moved to Greenwood. Mr. Rasmussen also did mason work.
Survivors include two sons, Raymond, Mashfield, and Walter, Greenwood 12 grandchildren six great-grandchildren.
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Given Name: Adolph
Change: Date: 1 DEC 2007
Note: Obituary of Elmira Blecha
Funeral services for Miss Elmira Blecha took place at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 30, 1956, at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Burial was in the Greenwood cemetery.
Miss Blecha died August 24, 1956 in Houston, Texas where she was director of the dietetic internship program at the Veterans Administration hospital -- a program she had organized at this new hospital. She died of cancer.
Officiating at the services was Rev. Albert Guthmiller. Pallbearers were her cousins; Donald, Elmer and Gary Speich, Edward Gerlach, Kenneth and Jerold Vollrath.
Elmira Emma Blecha, daughter of Frank and Bertha Vollrath Blecha, was born November 18, 1913, in Eaton twonship near Greenwood. She was confirmed in the Braun Settlement Evangelical and Reformed church. She graduated from Greenwood High School in 1931; Central State College, Stevens Point in 1935 and Wayne University, Detroit, where she received a master's degree in nutrition in 1937.
She was a member of the American Dietetic Association of which she headed the diet therapy section, the Texas and Houston Dietetic Association and the Houston Diabetes Association.
Her father died in 1918 and her mother in 1925. After the death of their mother, Elmira and her twin brothers Lee and Lynn, lived with James Metcalf. Her brother, Lee Blecha, was declared missing in action after the sinking of the U.S.S. Buck in 1942.
Survivors include her brother and sister-in-law, Capt and Mrs. Lynn Blecha and nieces carolynn and Barbara, Bryn, Texas; her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Metcalf, and her foster sisters and brothers, Mrs. Ben (Bertha) Dallman, LeRoy Metcalf, Dale Metcalf, Princeton, Wis. and Everett Metcalf, Brookings, S.D. Attending the funeral from out of (the rest of the copy is missing)
Elmira Blecha Had Made a Career
Daughter of This County, Research Worker, Dies in Texas, Final Rites Here
By Louise Keiner
Miss Elmira Blecha, 41, of Houstan, Tex., formerly of Greenwood, died August 24 in Houston.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) at Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in Greenwood. Burial will be in the Greenwood cemetery. The body was to arrive here Tuesday evening and friends may call at the Stabnow funeral home begining Wednesday noon and at the Church Thursday noon until time for services.
Elmira Emma Belecha was born November 18, 1913, town of Eaton, Greenwood. She graduated from Greenwood high school in 1931; from Central State college, Stevens Point in 1935. She received her master's degree at Wayne University, Detroit, and was employed at Lima, O., and at the University hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich., where she did reseearch work for a number of years.
In February, 1952, she went to Houston, Tex., where she was an instructor of dietetics at the Veterans hospiatl. Her father, Frank Blecha, died here December 26, 1918, and her mother, Bertha (Vollrath) Blecha, died October 6, 1925. After the death of their mother, Elmira and her brothers, Lee and Lynn, lived with their uncle and aung, Mr. and Mrs. James Metcalf, Greenwood. Mrs. Metcalf and their mother were sisters. Her brother, Lee Blecha, was offically declared missing in action since October 9, 1943.
She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. Lynn Blecha, and Nieces, Carolynn and Barbara Blecha, all of Byron, Tex.; her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Metcalf; her foster brothers and sister, Mrs. Ben (Bertha) Dallman and Leroy Metcalf of Greenwood; Dale Metcalf of Princeton; and Everett Metcalf of Brookings, S.C.
Other uncles and aunts in the area are Mrs. Willimam Gerlach of Neillsville, Mrs. Mary Kubat of Loyal, Mrs. Jake Speich and George and Ernest Vollrath of Greenwood, Bernard Vollrath of Detroit, Mich., and John Vollrath of Los Angeles, Calif.
Given Name: Elmira Emma
Change: Date: 26 JUN 2004