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- June 2008
Information on this family was kindly contributed by Clark W., grandson of Clara.
Email address: clark(at)brittonsd.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marshallcounty&id=I19901
M. Neff, 92, Britton, died Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at her home.
A memorial service will be held Monday, July 8, at 10:30 a. m. at the United Methodist Church in Britton. Pastor Tim Vorlage will officiate.
Clara Mabel Stiles was born Sept. 5, 1909, at St. Paul, MN, to Frederick and Clara (Goebel) Stiles. Her mother died at her birth, and Clara spent her childhood with her maternal grandparents in St. Paul and summers in Britton with her father, who ran a hardware store at the time.
She married Moritz E. Wismer June 23, 1930, in St. Paul. Together they ran the family lumber yard in Britton where she kept the business books until he died in 1963. After his death she built apartments and a house in Britton.
While in Britton Clara was a member of the Britton Study Club, Home Garden Club, and Rebecca Lodge. She worked for the Red Cross during World War II, and also as a nurse's aid at the Britton Hospital. She was active in the Methodist Church, teaching Sunday School, as a pianist for church services, and in the Methodist Women's Society.
In 1965 she moved to Arizona. She married Roger Neff of Indiana in Tucson, AZ, in 1966. They lived in Tucson and Show Low, and enjoyed square dancing and traveling across the country in their motor home for many years. They returned to Bloomington, IN, in 1995 and then to Britton in 1996 and lived at Spruce Court for a time. Roger died May 23, 2000. At the time of her death she was living in her own home with the assistance of Velda Bukaske, Elaine Juelfs, and Gloria Krutsinger.
She enjoyed researching and recording family history, doing craft projects in crocheting and other mediums, collecting postage stamps, corresponding with friends and relatives, and, in the last year, keeping up with the outside world via the Internet.
She is survived by two sons, Richard (Elaine Bandt) Wismer and Charles (Colleen Sieverts) Wismer, Britton; three step-children, 13 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, parents, and one step-granddaughter.
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