----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1939

WESSEL FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED MONDAY
REV. P.H. FRANZMEIER HOLDS RITES AT BRAUN SETTLEMENT CHURCH
 

Greenwood - Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon for Adolph Wessel, 71, who died Thursday afternoon, October 12, 1939, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Schwarze, in the Town of Warner, Clark County.

The Rev. P. H. Franzmeier conducted the 1:30 p.m. rites at the Alfred Schwarze home, and the 2 o'clock services at the Braun Settlement Reformed Church. Interment took place in the Braun Settlement cemetery.

Pallbearers were William Schlinsog, William Miller, John Vollrath, Ed Hinker, Clarence Mason, and C. C. Hoehne.

Mr. Wessel, son of the late Bernard and Johanna Oberkrueger Wessel, was born in Lippedetmold, Germany, Oct. 15, 1867. In 1892 he came to the United States and worked in Sheboygan and Manitowoc Counties until 1898, when he was married on Aug. 13 to Anna Auerbach.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wessel purchased a farm in the Town of Mead, where Mrs. Wessel died June 8, 1917. Twelve years later Mr. Wessel sold his farm to his son, Albert, and moved to the City of Greenwood.

In June of this year his health began to fail and he was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where he received medical treatment for a short time. Since that time he had lived with his son-in-law and daughter, the Albert Schwarzes.

Mr. Wessel is survived by four sons, Walter Wessel, Neenah Alfred Wessel, Town of Mead Adolph Wessel, Dixon, Ill. and Theodore Wessel, Town of Mead and two daughters, Mrs. Alfred (Ella) Schwarze, Town of Warner, and Mrs. Donald (Lydia) Tieman, Town of Butler. Three children died in infancy.

There are also nine grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. William Tohl, Plymouth.

People from out of town who attended the services were: Mr. and Mrs. William Tohl, Mrs August Blanke, Julius Wessel, and Mrs Arthur Blanke, Plymouth Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weichelt Sr. and Mrs. August Korth, Marshfield Mrs. Edward Keckman and daughter, Delores, and Mrs. Marth Schultz, Kiel Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weichelt, Stratford Mr. and Mrs. William Weichelt, Granton and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reinhard, Clark.