This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wolden, McCarthy, Joslin, Tockley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2541 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Wednesday, 1/8/1958. Mrs. Christena Wolden, 93, died yesterday afternoon at 1:20 o'clock in the home of a daughter, Miss Cora Wolden, Elderon, with whom she had been residing. A resident of Elderon for 52 years, Mrs. Wolden had been in ill health about three years. Funeral services will be Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Elderon, with the Rev. E. L. Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Rest Cemetery, Elderon. The body will be in the Schmidt Funeral Home, Wittenberg, from tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock until noon Friday and in the church from Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock until the rites. Mrs. Wolden was born June 5, 1864, in New Hope, Portage County. She was married Aug. 25, 1891, in Amherst to Peter H. Wolden, who died in 1947. The couple resided on a Portage County farm until 1905, when they moved to Elderon. Mrs. Wolden was a charter member of the Ladies Aid Society of Our Saviour's Church. Surviving, besides the daughter with whom she was living, are three other daughters, Miss Pearl Wolden, Merrill, Mrs. Arthur McCarthy, Minneapolis, and Mrs. Helen Joslin, Milwaukee; a sister, Mrs. Ida Tockley, Merrill; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.