Obit: Ockershauser, Karl F. (1914 - 1978)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ockershauser, Blood, Southworth, Hardacre, Schlachtenhaufen 

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI.) Saturday May 20, 1978

Ockershauser, Karl F. (31 October 1914 - 19 May 1978)

Karl F. Ockershauser, 63, of 1320 N. Wood Ave., died of a coronary heart attack at 3:30 p.m. Friday at his home.

Visitation at Rembs/Kundinger Funeral Chapel will be private.  Committal service will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Beaver Cemetery, in the Town of Beaver, Loyal, with the Rev. Bruno Schlachtenhaufen, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Loyal officiating.

Mr. Ockershauser was born Oct. 31, 1914 in Baraboo.  He attended grade and high school in Baraboo, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, receiving his commission in 1939.

He served with the paratroopers in Europe during World War II and resigned his military commission with the rank of colonel in 1946.  At this time he entered the furniture business in Chicago, and then entered the spring industry in Detroit, where he was vice president and general manager of N o-Sag Spring Co. until 1966.  He then became president of National Spring Corp. of High Point, N. C., later semi-retiring but remaining as a consultant until the present time.

On Oct. 11, 1977 he was elected to a five year term on the Marshfield Water and Light Commission.  He also served as campaign manager of the newly elected Marshfield Mayor Marilyn Hardacre.  He was affiliated with the Marshfield Elks Lodge.

On June 1, 1950 he and Inez Bernice Bloom were married in Marshfield.  She survives along with a brother, Thomas Ockershauser, Oklahoma City, Okla., and a sister, Mrs. Helen Southworth, Webster Groves, Mo.

Memorials may be designated to the American Cancer Society or Marshfield Medical Foundation.