----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 05/22/1991
 

Siebert, Earle R. (1919 - 1991)

Earle R. Siebert, 71, 210 E. Division St., Neillsville, died at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 1991, at St. Joseph's Hospice Care Unit in Marshfield.

Services were at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Neillsville, with the Rev. Joseph N. Henseler, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the parish cemetery.

Pallbearers were Brent Claflin, Henry Lukes, John Knoff, Steve Karstens, Howie Sturtz and John Resong.

Earle Siebert was born June 26, 1919, at Whitelake, Wis., to Henry and Clara (Culver) Siebert. He graduated from Birnamwood High School and received a B.A. Degree from Central State Teachers College at Stevens Point in 1941. He was editor of the Pointer, the college newspaper. He also wrote a column for the Stevens Point Journal.

He was a member of the Alpha Psi Omega fraternity and the Chi Delta Rho fraternity. He spent four years in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

Siebert taught at Marion, Wis. and at Green Lake County Normal. He was editor and owner of the Black River Country Shopper for many years, and after retiring, he spent time in Texas. Also, after his retirement he did substitute teaching, house painting and gardening. He had also spent many years in the National Guard.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, a member of the Neillsville Rotary Club for many years, a member of Haugen-Richmond Post of the American Legion of Neillsville Number 73, and of Wilson-Heintz VFW Post Number 2241, and the 40 et 8.
He married Barbara E. Gerdes on May 23, 1942, at San Antonio, Texas she survives. Other survivors are three sons, Michael and Jonathan, both of Neillsville Stephen, Marshfield two daughters, Sue Ann Schrapk, Neillsville, and Sandra Ryan, Harlingen, Texas nine sisters, Mrs. Norman (Gertrude) Schabell, and Mrs. Verna Schoenick, Stevens Point Mrs. Erma Hoffman and Mrs. Freeman (Barbara) Monfort, Green Bay Mrs. Roger (Ruth) Halverson, Eagle river Mrs. William (Joyce) Brown, Gillett Mrs. Marcella Wilke, Cudahy Bette Haley, Hollywood, Maryland and Mrs. Robert (Virgene) Delzer, Pulaski a brother, Gordon Siebert, Neenah 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

His parents and two sisters are deceased.