This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POWELL, FREUND, RIZZI, EARSLEY, MEYER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WOBBAIB/5205 Message Board Post: From Marshfield (Wisconsin) News Herald dated Wednesday, July 27, 1957 John Powell Is Dead at Age 75 Funeral to Be Held Friday Afternoon John Powell, 1008 S. Ash avenue, a resident of Marshfield most of his life, died of complications at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon in St. Joseph’s Hospital. He was 75 years of age. Beginning this evening, the body will repose at the Rembs Funeral Home. The Rev. A. O. Pinke, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, will officiate at funeral services there at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in Hillside cemetery. Mr. Powell was born at Plainfield Oct. 24, 1881, and came to Marshfield as a young boy. He was married here on Feb. 19, 1906, to the former Caroline Freund, who survives him. For a number of years he was employed at Blum Brothers factory, and later he operated a tavern for 14 years. He retired in 1945. Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Jake (Alice) Rizzi, Spencer; Mrs. Esther Earsley, Milwaukee; three sons, Henry, route 1, Marshfield; Edwin, Marshfield; Frederick, Milwaukee; 21 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; a brother, Arthur, route 1, Marshfield, and one sister, Mrs. George Meyer, route 1, Marshfield. One daughter, five sons, and two brothers preceded him in death.