Obit: Kuester, Ferdinand O. #2 (1879 - 1955)

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Surnames: Kuester, Gutzmer, Stucki, Zabler, Grap, Hemp, O’Brien, Keller, DeMert

----Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.)   08/11/1955

Kuester, Ferdinand O. #2 (11 NOV 1879 - 5 AUG 1955)

Ferdinand Otto Kuester, age 76, of Grand Avenue Road, route 3, Neillsville, died at Memorial Hospital August 5, 1955.  He had been ill for about four weeks.

Surviving besides his wife are the following children: Mabel, Mars. Arthur Gutzmer, Milwaukee, Ella, Mrs. Rev. Ben Stucki, Neillsville, Roman Kuester, Milwaukee, Anna, Mrs. Earl Zabler, West Allis, Minnie, Mrs. Carl Grap, Milwaukee, Amanda, Mrs. John Hemp, La Crosse, Sadie, Mrs. Harold O’Brien, Neillsville, Mrs. Beulah Keller, Kenosha and Isabelle, Mrs. Oscar DeMert of Neillsville.  Also surviving are three brothers, Henry Kuester, Sheboygan, William of Milwaukee and Fred of Loyal, twenty eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.  Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday.  The Rev. Albert Guthmiller officiated and burial took place in the Neillsville City Cemetery.  Mr. Kuester was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church for 43 years.