GRANTON - August Bealer, 72, route 1, Chili, died monday in Memorial Hospital at Neillsville.

Services will be conducted Thursday in Granton. Burial will be made in the Yolo cemetery in the town of Fremont.

Mr. Bealer was born March 12, 1894, in the town of Fremont, and had lived and farmed here his entire life. His marriage to Clara Bartz, who survives, took place Aug. 31, 1923, at the Lutheran parsonage at Nasonville.

Other survivors are a son, Wilbur, Elgin, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. Elmer (June) Riese, Eau Claire; Mrs. Lowell (Fern) Frankwick, Stratford, and Mrs. Robert (Marlene) Oestreich, Neillsville; three brothers, Herman, Campbell, Calif.; Albert, Marshfield, Minn.; an Fred, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and 10 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three daughters, a son, five brothers and a sister.