Obit: Kunze, Lawrence Gilbert (1929 - 2005)

Contact:  Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Kunze, Meyer, Schmitt, Rachu, Folz, Staab, Zettler, Angelich, Sossaman

----Sources: Marshfield News Hearld (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Thu, Sep 15, 2005

Kunze, Lawrence Gilbert (10 Feb. 1929 - 13 Sept. 2005)

ABBOTSFORD - Lawrence Gilbert Kunze, 76, Abbotsford, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005, at Saint Joseph's Hospital Palliative Care Unit.

Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 2005, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Colby. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Maurina Funeral Home, Abbotsford, and from 10:30 a.m. until service time Friday at the church. There will be a parish rosary at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Lawrence was born Feb. 10, 1929, in the town of Hull to Joseph and Catherine (Meyer) Kunze. Lawrence and Verjean Schmitt were married Aug. 18, 1954, at St. Mary's Catholic Church. They farmed in the town of Hull until they retired. He also was a milk hauler for AMPI.

Lawrence is survived by his wife,Verjean of Abbotsford; his children, Douglas Kunze, Abbotsford, Roger (Laurel) Kunze, Abbotsford, David (Julene) Kunze, Stratford, Margie (Dale) Rachu, Abbotsford, Rhonda (Rod) Folz, Appleton, Sandra (Greg) Staab, Marshfield, and Amy Zettler, Edgar; 20 grandchildren; his brothers and sisters, Raymond (Peggy) Kunze, Lewiston, Idaho, Bernard (Beverly) Kunze, Gilbert (Joann) Kunze, Frances Angelich and Estella Sossaman, all of Abbotsford, Wis.