Obit: Zettler, Wilfred #2 (1945? - 1954) 

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Surnames: Zettler, Wozniak, Burgraff, Hildensperger 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 06/10/1954 
 

Zettler, Wilfred (1945? - 6 June 1954) 
 

Wilfred Zettler, 9 years old, was fatally injured in an accident on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Zettler, town of Johnson, Sunday morning. He and his brother, Anthony, 12, were taking a storage battery to a pasture to provide power for an electric fence. Wilfred sat in a front end manure loader on a tractor which Anthony drove.  
 

The bottom of the loader accidentally tripped, according to Coroner John W. Hildensperger, spilling the boy to the ground. Anthony stopped the tractor almost immediately, but not before the bottom of the loader struck Wilfred. He died almost instantly.  
 

Wilfred was killed as he and a brother, Anthony, 12, were taking a storage battery to a pasture to provide power for an electric fence. Wilfred sat in a front-end manure loader of a tractor which Anthony drove.

He is survived by his parents and two brothers, Anthony and Dale, and four sisters, Marlene, Doris, Susan, and Carol, all at home; his paternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zettler, Athens; and his maternal grand father, Frank Wozniak, town of Halsey. 
 

Funeral services were held Thursday morning at 9:00 o’clock, at St. John the Baptist, church at Wuerzburg, with the Rev. Jacob Burgraff officiating. Burial was made in the church cemetery.