Obit: Vesel, Margaret I. #2 (1889 - 1966)

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Surnames: Vesel, Schutte, Brown, Sowieja, Raper, Maynorich, Seavoy

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.)   07/14/1966

Vesel, Margaret I. #2 (24 OCT 1889 - 27 JUN 1966)

Mrs. John Vesel, 66, Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.), died unexpectedly at 6:15 p.m. Monday, June 27, 1966, at her home.  Death was due to an apparent heart attack.

Services were held at 9 a.m., Thursday, June 30, at the Hill Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church here.  The Rev. Aloysius Baumann officiated and burial was made in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

The former Margaret Irene Schutte was born Oct. 24, 1889, at Calumet, Mich., and was married there June 10, 1920, to John Vesel.  The couple made their home in Calumet, Mich., for one year before coming to Greenwood, where they had resided since.

Mrs. Vesel was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and St. Ann’s Society, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Royal Neighbors of America, and was a Gold Star Mother.

In addition to her husband, survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Gordon (Margaret) Brown, Bergland, Mich.; and Mrs. Eugene (Josephine) Sowieja, greenwood; four sons, Bernard, West Allis; Raymond, Colgate; Robert, greenwood, and Charles, Chicago; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Raper and Mrs. Jack (Florence) Maynorich, Phoenix, Mich.; Mrs. Victor (Elizabeth Seavoy, Negaunee, Mich.; and four brothers, John, Peter, and Marcus Schutte, Ahmeek, Mich.; and Edward Schutte, Chicago; and 20 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, John, who was killed in 1943 while serving in World War II.