The former Anna Marie Sucharda, she was born at Wausaukee March 25, 1893, and at 11 moved with her parents to a farm near Oconto. She was married May 14, 1914. About 25 years ago she and her husband moved near Gillett where they operated the Oconto County Home and the Telford Convalescent Home for 22 years. They retired three years ago.
Mrs. Telford was a member of the Oconto Rebekah Lodge and the F.S.C.S. of the Gillett Methodist Church.
Survivors besides her husband, are a daughter, Mrs. Clarence (Marian) Severance, Moorfield, W.Va.' a son Donald, Gillett; four grandchildren; and four brothers, Frank, Marinette, John, Kenosha, Edmund, Akron Ohio, and William, Milwaukee.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the Gillett Methodist Church, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto.
The body lay in state at the Buehl Funeral Home, Gillett and Rebekah services were held at the funeral home at 8 o'clock Tuesday.