GREEN, Fred H. 1873 - 1957

GREEN, SCHMIDTKE, HART, DAY

Posted By: Cindy Maust Smith (email)
Date: 8/22/2020 at 11:20:08

The Monona Leader, Thursday, March 14, 1957, Monona, Iowa, Page 4

Fred Green Funeral Held

Military services for Fred H. Green, 84, were held Monday, Feb. 25, at the Grand Army home chapel at King, Wis. with Rev. A. Walkenhoure, pastor of the Amherst Lutheran church at Amherst Junction, Wis., officiating.

Mr. Green died Friday evening, Feb. 22, in the hospital at the Grand Army home at King, Wis.

He was born the son of Edward and Mathilda Hall Green, Feb. 16, 1873.

His early life was spent in Monona where he assisted his father, who operated a horse tread-power wood sawing machine. One of their big projects was sawing ties for the railroad company.

He enlisted in the US army at Waukon in the spring of 1898 and left with forty-five other men of the Waukon vicinity to serve in the Spanish American war.

For several years he operated a laundry in Waukon and after the death of his wife he went to Chippewa Falls, Wis., where he resided for some time.

He married Wilhelmine L. Schmidtke of St. Joseph, Mich., Nov. 6, 1920, at Chippewa Falls, Wis. A daughter, Mrs. Earl (Lillian) A Day of Milwaukee, WI., and another child who died at birth, were born to them.

The family also resided in Hartford, Wis., for a short time before moving to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1927, where they lived until 1942 when Mr. and Mrs. Green left to enter the Grand Army home at King, Wis., where Mrs. Green died Jan. 24, 1953.

In 1954 Mr. Green returned to live for a short time in Waukon and Monona. He returned to the Grand Army home in the fall of 1956, where he died following a heart attack.

Mr. Green was a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, department Wisconsin. He was the department chaplain of the forty sixth department encampment from the Grand Army home at King, Wis., and past chaplain of the Hugh J. McGrath camp in Milwaukee, Wis.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Carol) Hart of Culver City, Calif., and Mrs. Earl A. (Lillian) Day of Milwaukee, Wis., one son, Delmar Green of Burlington, N.Y.; a brother, Lou B. Green of Minneapolis, Minn.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.