Obit: Peissig, Herman #2 (1872 - 1957)

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Surnames: Peissig, Hill, Bowen, Cutts, House

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/03/1957

Peissig, Herman #2 (11 AUG 1872 - 25 SEP 1957)

Funeral services were held on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Curtiss Evangelical Lutheran Church for Herman J. Peissig, 85, a retired farmer and insurance man, who died at 6:00 p.m. at the Havenet Nursing Home at Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) after a heart attack.  The Rev. Max E. Wilhelm officiated and burial was made on the family lot at Pine Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Peissig farmed in the town of Hoard from 1896 to 1939 and was agent for the farmers Mutual Cyclone Insurance Co. of Juneau for 50 years from 1905 to 1955.

He was active in town government for 11 years and assessor for 17 years, serving as clerk of the town of Hoard.

He was born in Tyssa, Austria, August 11, 1872, and came to Stetsonville at the age of 14 with his parents.  He was married in 1896 to Marie E. Bell, who died in 1930.

After he retired from farming he lived with his children until about a month ago when he went to the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Lester (Hilda) Bowen, Mrs. Malonie Cutts of Atascadero, Calif., Mrs. Henry (Margaret) House, Owen, five sons, Alphonse and Theodore, Minneapolis, Franklin and Emery, Curtiss, Arthur, Chippewa Falls, one brother, Julius Peissig, Stetsonville, 19 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.  One son, Harry, died in 1950.

Pallbearers were his sons Emery, Theodore, Arthur and Franklin, his son-in-law, Lester Bowen, and grandson, Harold House.

In charge of the flowers were his granddaughters, Janet Peissig, Janie Peissig, Marla and Marilyn Peissig.

At the service Mrs. Paul Volk, accompanied by Mrs. Ted Miller, who sang "At Home with My Lord" and "Las Mich Gehn."

A large number of relatives and friends attended the rites.