Surnames: Wiese, Johnson, Bilger, Grambsch, Wiggins, Slempkes, Belt, Booten

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood, Co., Wis.) Fri, Jan 28, 2005

Wiese, Robert 'Bob' Clarence (18 July 1949 - 26 Jan. 2005)

LOYAL - Robert "Bob" Clarence Wiese, 55, of Loyal died Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005, at his home in town of Sherman.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 31, 2005, at Cornerstone Community Church in Marshfield. Burial will follow in Pine Grove Cemetery in town of Loyal.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday at Cuddie Funeral Home in Loyal and from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the church in Marshfield.

Bob was born July 18, 1949, in Elgin, Ill., to Clarence and Doris (Johnson) Wiese. He married Georgia Bilger on Nov. 26, 1993, at Countryside Evangelical Free Church in Merrillan. The couple moved their dairy operation to Loyal and purchased a farm in August 1995. Bob continued to build his herd and achieved a BAA of 107.4 in September 2004.

He is survived by his wife, Georgia Wiese of Loyal; daughter, Amanda (Chris) Grambsch, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.; five stepchildren, John (Kim) Wiggins, Ham Lake, Minn., Steven (Sarah) Wiggins, Altoona, Kelly Slempkes, Washington D.C., Jay Slempkes, 10th Infantry Division, Iraq, and Ben Slempkes, Green Bay; his mother, Doris Wiese, Elgin, Ill.; and two sisters, Karen (Anderson) Belt, South Elgin, Ill., and Emilie (William) Booten, Sandwich, Ill.