Obit: Roehl, Russell (1915 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Roehl, Nebel, Carstensen, Wilson, Bentzler, McCormick

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) April 18, 1963

Roehl, Russell (8 March 1915 - 16 April 1963)

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Chili for Russell Roehl, 48-year-old Town of Loyal farmer who was killed instantly in a tractor mishap at 8:20 p.m. Tuesday.

The Rev. L. L. McCormick will be in charge, and burial will be made in the church cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Myre Funeral Home at Loyal starting at noon today, (Thursday), and will be taken to the church at noon Friday.

Mr. Roehl, the father of four children, was killed when the tractor he was driving turned over backward as he attempted to drive it up a steep ditch onto a Loyal town road.  He had been working a piece of ground on the Bentzler farm, one-half mile west of the city of Loyal.  Roehl had rented the farm this year.  His own farm is located a mile west and 2 ½ miles south of the city.

Three young Loyal area men, on their way to the bowling alley in the city, came across the accident, presumably shortly after it had happened. 

Roehl was a native of Chili, having been born there March 8, 1915.  He attended school at the Cozy Corner School, and moved to the Loyal area in 1943.  He married Frieda Nebel of Chili in that village in March, 1938.

Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Lowell, Elgin and Erlin, and a daughter, Kathleen, all at home.  Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Clara Roehl, of Chili; three sisters, Mrs. William (Vera) Carstensen of Neillsville, Mrs. Gerald (Leila) Wilson of Chili, and Miss Evelyn Roehl, also of Chili, and six brothers: Glenn of Marshfield, Walter of Granton, Alvin, Carl, Harvey and Leo all of Chili.