----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06 / /1953

Abel, Frank Henry (1874 - 1953)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Frank Henry Abel, a resident of this area many year, died Monday, June 29, 1953, at 10 p.m. , at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Carl Laube, Colby. He had been in poor health since December, when he underwent surgery.

Services have been set tentatively for 2 p.m. Friday in west Side Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will be made in West Side Cemetery.
The body will repose at the Schiller funeral Home from Wednesday until Friday morning.

Mr. Abel, a native of West Bend, was born Jan. 1, 1874. He came to Greenwood with his parents as a child.

Married Sept. 29, 1897, to Louisa Franz, Town of Warner, the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1947. She died Aug. 11, 1949.

Following her death, Mr. Abel moved from his farm 5 miles southwest of here to the home of his daughter in Colby.

Mrs. Laube is one of three daughters and two sons surviving him. The others are Mrs. Walter (Ella) Elmer, Milwaukee Mrs. Adolph (Florine) Wendt, Owen and Otto and Adolph, both of Greenwood. Two sons died in infancy.

Other survivors include three brothers, John, William, and Gustave, all of Greenwood, 19 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. A brother and sister preceded him in death.