Surnames: Herdt, Carlson, Peissig, Totzke

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Saturday, 25 Apr. 2009

Peissig, Richard Alan (9 Jan. 1987 - 23 Apr. 2009)

Richard Alan Peissig, 22, of Curtiss passed away at his home on April 23, 2009. Visitation will be on Sunday, April 26, 2009, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home in Abbotsford, Wis. Further visitation will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Curtiss on Monday, April 27, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. His funeral service will take place following visitation at the church at 11 a.m. Burial will take place following the service in Pine Hill Cemetery in the town of Mayville.

Rick was born on Jan. 9, 1987, at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield to his loving parents Kathy and Claude Peissig. He graduated from the Abbotsford High School in 2005. He was voted Best Smile in his senior yearbook. He was employed at Loos Machine in Colby, Wis. He is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Curtiss. He enjoyed snowmobiling, dirt biking, four-wheeling and bowling with friends. Richard loved music and his family.

Richard is lovingly survived by his parents Claude and Kathy Peissig, Abbotsford, his sister Lisa (Eric) Totzke, Abbotsford, grandmother Mary Carlson, Abbotsford, and was a proud and loving uncle to his niece Nia. He will be dearly missed by aunts, uncles, cousins, special friend Samantha Herdt and other relatives and friends. He is preceded in death by Franklin and Francis Peissig and grandfather Richard Carlson.