Wilfred H. Greve 1897-1957

GREVE, GRIFFIS, CLARK, OWENS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/17/2019 at 07:45:24

11 April 1957 - The Tipton Conservative

Funeral services for W. H. Greve, 59, former Tipton city employee, were held Saturday at the Sheets and Dahn funeral home with the Rev. A. C. Long in charge. Burial was in the Tipton Masonic cemetery.

Pallbearers were Bert Morden, Harold Davis, Chalres Lukemeyer, Walter Nelson, Fred Hawker and Leonard Dice.

Greve died at his home in Tipton April 3.

Wilfred Henry Greve was born Dec. 1, 1897, in Lowden, the son of Louise and Henry Greve. He was married to Zella Griffis at Tipton, Jan. 27, 1924.

He is survived by his wife, three children, Mrs. Louise Clark, Cedar Rapids; Clyde, a teacher at Ramey Air Force base, Puerto Rico, and Keith, a student at Iowa State Teachers college; two grandchildren, four brothers, Arthur and Henry, Adrian, Minn.; Fred, Luverne, Minn., and Herbert, Spokane, Wash., and a sister, Mrs. Laura Owens, Adrian, Minn.

Also two half brothers, Richard and Lawrence Brewer, Adrian, Minn., and a half sister, Mrs. Olga Good, Fairmont, Minn.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Clarice, in 1928.