----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1967

AREA RESIDENT DIES AT AGE 55
 

Greenwood - Theodore Rudolph Wessel, 55, route 3, Greenwood, Clark County, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 6:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2, 1967 at his home.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Immanuel United Church of Christ here with the Rev. David Logue officiating.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home here from Thursday afternoon until 11 a.m. Friday, and then at the church.

Mr. Wessel was born Feb. 28, 1912, at Greenwood, received his education here, and had lived in this area his entire life. He was employed at a cheese factory in Black Creek for a time, then owned and operated a cheese factory in the town of Eaton before moving to his present farm 22 years ago.

His marriage to Arvilla Franz took place May 30, 1942, at Immanuel United Church of Christ at Greenwood.

Mr. Wessel was a member of the cemetery board of Immanuel United Church of Christ at Greenwood.

In addition to his wife, survivors are two children, Allan and Miss Lois Wessel, both of Milwaukee two brothers, Albert and Adolph, and two sister, Mrs. Ella Schwarze and Mrs. Donald (Lydia) Tieman, all of Greenwood.

Two brothers and a sister preceded him in death.