Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkObits/12433 Surname: SHANKS ------------------------- ---------Source: GREENWOOD LIBRARY SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION – MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 7/??/1949 ---------SHANKS FUNERAL Greenwood – The Rev. Lee H. Holmes officiated at funeral rites Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Grace Methodist Church for Ablert Shanks, 81, who died July 3, 1949. Interment took place in the Greenwood Cemetery. (He was born April 2, 1868) Pallbearers were E.L. Mlada, Ed Buker, Ed Hillert, Robert McConnell, William Hubert, and Jake Speich. Mrs. Chal Perkins and Miss Evangeline Sheets sang “Ivory Palaces” and “Sweet Bye and Bye”, Miss Donna Mae Gotter, Loyal, was the piano accompanist. People who came for the funeral include Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Schneider, Meno, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. John Meek and family and Mrs. Wagner, Brodhead; Mrs. William Bold, Sidney, Mont.; Mrs. Kenneth Jones, Glendive, Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gauger, Arcadia; Mrs. William Andrews, Owen; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dunn, Neillsville; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boe and Mrs. Lela Mack, Loyal; Mrs. George Alton, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pelicity, Stanley; and Miss Mabel Bishop, Wausau.