----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1971

AREA RESIDENT DIES AT AGE 32

Greenwood--Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church here for Mrs. Richard (Yvonne) Rondorf, 32, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, 1971 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where she had been a patient since Oct. 4.

The Rev. Leander Koopman, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in St. Mary's parish cemetery.

Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home beginning Sunday afternoon. A general rosary will be recited there at 7:45 p.m. Sunday.

The former Yvonne Loretta Abel was born May 9, 1939 in Marshfield, and received her education at St. Mary's Catholic Grade School in Greenwood and was a graduate of Greenwood High School.

She was married July 26, 1958 in Greenwood to Richard Rondorf. The couple resided in Milwaukee from 1958 until 1963, when they returned to Greenwood and settle on a farm southeast of Greenwood.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, and the St. Ann's Society of the Church.

Survivors include her husband five daughters, Lois, Denise, Mary Jo, Tracy, and Peggy, all at home three sons, Thomas, Patrick, and Kurt, all at home two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Joan) Buganowski, and Mrs. Jerry (Donna) Peters, Wisconsin Rapids three brothers, Harold Abel, Marengo, Ill. Lloyd Abel, Marshfield and Frank Abel, serving with the Marines in Glenco, Ga. and her mother, Mrs. Grace Abel, Greenwood.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Michelle, in Oct. 1966, and her father, Otto Abel, Sept. 17, 1971.