Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Winifred VAN VLECK

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> May 2005

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On January 2, Winifred Van Vleck departed this world, having fought a brave
and patient fight for the life she loved so well but could not hold.

She was born in Cooksville, Wisconsin but when small the family moved to
Evansville, where she attended the schools until graduation at the High
School in the class of 1902. For a time she was employed at the Bank of
Evansville, but a college education had always been her desire and aim and
after a short time she entered Beloit College but finished her course at
the University of Wisconsin. She taught in the high schools of Edgerton,
Racine and Des Plaines. With a wealth of versatility and a purpose to
constantly accomplish greater things and urged, even then, by poor health,
she left the teaching profession and took a course in photography. In
company with a close friend she bought a studio in Harvard, Ill., and here
she lived and worked until the time of her death.

Sucess greeted her in all her undertakings because she had the
determination and willingness to work. A strong, personality dominating in
its forcefulness and gentleness gave her many friends who hold her in deep
affection. It can be said of her, as it was of a soldier boy laid away on
the hills of France, "Loving, Lovable, Loved."

She leaves to mourn her going her mother, Mrs. D. A. Van Vleck and one
brother, John, both of Harvard, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Porter of
Evansville and Mrs. Walter Pflaum of Wauwatosa.

Services were held at the home Jan. 4, and a short service at Evansville,
at the home of George L. Pullen. Interment at Maple Hill Cemetery.

CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all our friends, those who sent flowers or assisted us or
remembered us in any way in our sorrow.

Mrs. D. A. Van Vleck, Mr. John G. Van Vleck, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pflaum,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Porter and family.

January 10, 1924, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin