Funeral services were held at 2:00 Sunday afternoon from the Leiser Funeral Home here for Wenzel F. Podhola, 78, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon last week at his residence in Jim Falls.

REV. GENE Carlson officiated at the services; interment was in the Bohemian National Cemetery.  Two hymns, "The Lord is My Shepherd" and "In the Garden", were sung by Mrs. Raymond Post, accompanied by organist Mrs. Walter Brovald.  Pallbearers were Tommy Ripienski, Duane Podhola, Wilfred Watson, Larry Popp, Wayne Watson, Rupert Jandrt, all grandsons of the deceased.

Podhola was born on September 11, 1884, in Manitowoc County.  In 1904, he came to the town of Arthur where he farmed from the time of his marriage on November 9, 1909, to Anna Nesvacil at Chippewa Falls, until 1957, when he retired and moved to Jim Falls.  He was a member of the Z.C.B.J. Lodge.

He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary to the Bohemian Hall in 1959.

SURVIVING are his wife; one son, Milo of Bristol, Wis.; seven daughters, Mrs. Edw. (Mildred) Jandrt of Colburn, Mrs. Streeter (Rose) Watson of Boyd, Mrs.. Paul (Amelia) Baumgaertner of Chippewa Falls, Mrs.. David (Edith) Popp of Lake Wissota, Mrs. Claude (Helen) Wallace of Algonquin, Ill., Mrs. Norman (Evelyn) Voss of Dundee, Ill., and Mrs. Ray (Lois) Ripienski of Chippewa Falls; a sister, Mrs.. Ed Nethig of Barron; 21 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Another daughter, Beatrice, died in 1946.

Out-of-town relatives and friends were in attendance from Bristol, Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Kenosha, Rice Lake, Barron, and Milwaukee, Wis.; Algonquin, Carpentersville, and Dundee, Ill.; and Minneapolis, Minn.