Eunice (Owen) Hensel
Judge E. F. Hensel’s Widow
Dies at Hospital at Sparta
Whitehall, Wis. (Special)-— Mrs. Eunice Hensel, wife of the late County Judge E. F. Hensel of Whitehall, died at 7 p. m. Sunday at a Sparta hospital where she had been taken the day before.
Mrs. Hensel moved from Whitehall to Sparta on May 1 to live with her daughter, Miss Margaret Hensel, a teacher in the state school at Sparta, because of poor health. She died on her 66th birthday.
She was born June 14,1876, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. T. Grafton Owen, and was married March 19, 1902. The couple lived in Blair where Judge Hensel practiced law for a time before moving to Whitehall in 1904.
Mrs. Hensel served as Trempealeau county registrar in probate here from January, 1927, until April, 1942, retiring because of poor health. She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star and in other club and civic organizations.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Hensel is survived by a brother. Judge Asa K. Owen of Phillips, and three sisters, two living in the West and one in Indiana. Judge Hensel died in 1930 and a son Alfred died December 24, 1916.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Methodist church here at 2 p. m. Wednesday and burial will be in Lincoln cemetery.
(from the June 15, 1942, Winona [Minn.] Republican-Herald.)
(It is not noted in her obituary, but Eunice Hensel was a member of the Ladies' Chautauqua Circle that raised the money that built the Whitehall bandstand; she is listed as Mrs. E.F. Hensel on the plaque on the western face of the bandstand.)
Dies at Hospital at Sparta
Whitehall, Wis. (Special)-— Mrs. Eunice Hensel, wife of the late County Judge E. F. Hensel of Whitehall, died at 7 p. m. Sunday at a Sparta hospital where she had been taken the day before.
Mrs. Hensel moved from Whitehall to Sparta on May 1 to live with her daughter, Miss Margaret Hensel, a teacher in the state school at Sparta, because of poor health. She died on her 66th birthday.
She was born June 14,1876, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. T. Grafton Owen, and was married March 19, 1902. The couple lived in Blair where Judge Hensel practiced law for a time before moving to Whitehall in 1904.
Mrs. Hensel served as Trempealeau county registrar in probate here from January, 1927, until April, 1942, retiring because of poor health. She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star and in other club and civic organizations.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Hensel is survived by a brother. Judge Asa K. Owen of Phillips, and three sisters, two living in the West and one in Indiana. Judge Hensel died in 1930 and a son Alfred died December 24, 1916.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Methodist church here at 2 p. m. Wednesday and burial will be in Lincoln cemetery.
(from the June 15, 1942, Winona [Minn.] Republican-Herald.)
(It is not noted in her obituary, but Eunice Hensel was a member of the Ladies' Chautauqua Circle that raised the money that built the Whitehall bandstand; she is listed as Mrs. E.F. Hensel on the plaque on the western face of the bandstand.)