| From a Marshfield, Wisconsin newspaper. Joan L. Powers was a great-granddaughter of Patrick and Johannah Hogan through their daughter Johanna Hogan Powers and her son John P. Powers: Miss Powers Is Dead at Age 63 Miss Joan L. Powers, 63, of 1012 S. Cherry Ave., died at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday at the Marshfield Convalescent Home where she had been a patient since Sept. 14, 1965. She had been in ill health the past year. Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rev. Thomas Garthwaite officiating. Burial will be made in Our Lady of Hope Cemetery at Chippewa Falls. The body will repose at the Rembs Chapel on Thursday from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. A general rosary service will be conducted there at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Miss Powers was born Aug. 6, 1902, at Chippewa Falls, and received her elementary and high school education there. She was a graduate of the State Teachers College in Duluth, Minn., and had taught school for a number of years. She attended St. Mary's School of Nursing, Rochester, Minn., where she received her R.N. degree, and the University of Minnesota where she received her bachelor of nursing education degree. From Aug. 1952 until June 1965, Miss Powers had been instructor in surgical nursing and specialties at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield. Prior to coming to Marshfield she was employed as a nursing instructor at Minot, N.D. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Survivors are two brothers, J. Weldon Powers, Walker, Minn.; and Richard P. Powers, Bethesda, Md.; and three sisters, Mrs. Paul A. Sanders, Mount Prospect, IL.; Miss Norah C. Powers, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Mrs. Harold A. Schwartz, Milwaukee. From a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin newspaper: Miss Joan Lorraine Powers, an esteemed resident of Marshfield, Wis., passed away Tuesday at the Marshfield Convalescent Home after a prolonged illness. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Powers, former residents of Chippewa Falls. Miss Powers was born in Chippewa Falls August 6, 1902. She attended schools in Cloquet, Minn., graduated from St. Mary's School of Nursing, Rochester, Minn., Michael Reis Hospital, Chicago, and took an advanced course in Nursing at the University of Minnesota. Miss Powers taught nursing at Minot, North Dakota, and at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wis., for the past 16 years. Surviving are two brothers, Weldon of Walker, Minn., and Richard of Bethesda, Maryland; three sisters, Mrs. Paul (Mary) Sanders, Mt. Prospect, Ill., Mrs. Harold (Anne) Schwartz, Milwaukee; and Norah Powers of Los Angeles, California. The funeral Mass will be held in Marshfield, Wis., at the Sacred Heart Church Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock. The remains will then be brought to Chippewa Falls for committal service at Our Lady of Hope Cemetery at 12:30 p.m. Friends may call at the Rembs chapel, Marshfield from four to nine p.m. Thursday. |