Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 07/29/1957

Schwarze, Ella Rose (1886 - 1957)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Ella Schwarze, 71, Greenwood, Clark County, a resident of the area her entire life, died here at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 27, 1957, at the home of a sister, Mrs. William Steiger.

Because of her illness, she had been staying with her sister the past three weeks. Prior to that time she had been making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Rohde of rural Greenwood. Mrs. Schwarze had been suffering with a heart ailment the past two years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will take place in the parish cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home here until 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church.

Mrs. Schwarze, the former Ella Rose Humke, was born March 6, 1886, in the Town of Warner, and was educated in the township. She married Edwin Schwarze Dec. 7, 1904, in the West Side Church, and the couple moved to a farm 5 miles northwest of Greenwood. Her husband died in Oct. 1950.

Mrs. Schwarze, who was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the church, is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Gilbert (Lucille) Rohde two sons, Theodore, Marshfield, and Walter, Greenwood three sisters, Mrs. Helena Rossman, Spokane, and Mrs. Meda Decker, and Mrs. Steiger, Greenwood three brothers, Theodore, Arthur and George, all of Greenwood and 10 grandchildren.

Her mother, Mrs. Henry Humke, died in 1956, and her father died in 1936. A brother also preceded her in death.