Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Peter PRUNK ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, February 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ PETER PRUNK DROPS DEAD HERE TUESDAY Dies Suddenly While Shoveling Snow; Masonic Funeral Rites Will Be Held Friday Peter Prunk, 61, a well-known resident of this community, dropped dead at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday while shoveling snow at his home, 330 South First Street. He has been in usual health and in the forenoon had assisted in pushing a car stalled in the snow in the business section of the city. Upon arriving home he complained of a head ache, but following dinner and a nap he went out to shovel snow in the back yard. Neighbors saw him fall and came to assist but he was dead when a doctor arrived. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Masonic temple with the Rev. G. Kenneth MacInnis, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in Maple Hill cemetery with Masons as pall bearers. Mr. Punk who was born in Denmark, June 22, 1872, came to this country with his mother when seven years of age, settling on a farm in Union township. He has always resided in this vicinity except for two years when he was employed as a manager on the McCormic estate near Wheaton, Ill. For more than 20 years Mr. Prunk was employed here with the D. E. Wood Butter company. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and Eastern Star. Besides his wife, he is survived by a step-daughter, Mrs. Leila Wahlberg, Evanston, Ill.; a step son, Albert Jensen, Evanston; one brother, Fritz Prunk, and a half-brother, Nelson Hanson both of Cooksville. A son, Carl, died in 1917 at the Great Lakes training station. March 23, 1933, Evansville Review, pp. 1 & 8, Evansville, Wisconsin