contributor: Richard LaBrosse

Oconto Falls-Funeral services for Mrs. James R. Volk were conducted at the Methodist church on Sunday afternoon, with the O'Neill funeral home in charge of arrangements. The Rev. John P. Simon and the Rev. David Johnson of Madison, officiated and burial took place in the family lot in the Volk Family cemetery. The casket was carried by Bernard, Thorpe, and Loval Bunn, John Dobbertin, Albert Gillis and Edwin Kain. The Rev. Mr. Johnson is a former pastor of the Falls Methodist church.

Mrs. Volk, who was 79 years of age, died at the Pine Manor Rest Home at Embarrass on Thursday morning. She had been a resident of Oconto Falls for many years. Mr. Volk died in June of 1946.

Mrs. Volk is survived by two daughters, Hazel, Mrs. Edward Wranovsky of Shawano, and Miss Emily Volk of Two Rivers; three sons, Norman of LaFayette, Ind., Garth of Worthington, Ohio, and Gaylord of Gainesville, Florida. She is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Henry Kingston of Stambaugh, Mich., Miss Adele McKenney of Port Washington, and Mrs. Leo Polzin of Green Bay; two brothers, H.L. McKenney of Auburn, Ind., and W.L. McKenney of Waukesha.

Although she maintained her membership in the church of Christ at Hickory, where she grew to womanhood, Mrs. Volk was active in the Methodist church in Oconto Falls throughout her residence here. She will be remembered by many as a teacher of a class of boys for a number of years in the Methodist church school. She was a kindly neighbor and friend, and the memory of Mrs. Volk always will be a blessed one.