----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06/ /1956

Schlinsog, William A. (1877 - 1956)

GREENWOOD--William August Schlinsog, 78, a former officer of the Town of Mead, Clark County, died of a heart attack Thursday morning, June 21, 1956, at his farm home, nine miles northwest of here. He had been in poor health for some time.

Mr. Schlinsog served as town chairman for 12 years and also as town clerk for many years. He was a former secretary-treasurer of the West Side Telephone Co. here and held various offices in Trinity Lutheran Church at Christie.

Services will be held at that church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. H. F. Brauer officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home here until 11:30 a.m. Sunday, when the body will be taken to the church.

Mr. Schlinsog was born in Granton July 6, 1877. He married Frieda Kreissig 49 years ago and since then had resided at his present farm home.

His wife and a daughter, Mrs. Leonard (Mabel) Jensen, of Longwood, survive him. Other survivors include a brother, Herman, Granton three sisters, Mrs. Laura Biel, Chili Mrs. Bertha Keller, Abbotsford, and Mrs. Anna Guk, Marshfield one foster-sister, Mrs. Bertha Hessel, Abbotsford, and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one son, Alvin.