Obit: Meier, Arthur George (1914 - 1966)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Meier, Rizner, Dux, Schoengarth, Zank, Meihak, Quast, Beyer, Lindloff

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/5/1967

Meier, Arthur George (15 July 1914 - 3 January 1966)

Arthur George Meier, 52, of Neillsville, died here Tuesday. Funeral services are to be held Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. from St. John‘s Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. Norman W. Lindloff will officiate. Burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. The body will be taken from the Georgas Funeral Home to the church one hour before the services.

Mr. Meier was born July 15, 1914 in Clark County and was the son of the late Adolph Meier and Mrs. Christine Meier of Memorial Home. He was married on November 3, 1935, to the former Bessie Rizner in Neillsville.

He had been employed at the former American Stores Dairy plant in Neillsville and also worked for the county highway department before his retirement due to failing health.

Mr. Meier is survived by his wife and the following children: Arthur Meier, Jr., of Crystal Lake, Ill.; Mrs. Frederick (Betty) Dux of Neillsville; Ronald Meier of Crystal Lake, Ill.; Mrs. Gayle (Annette) Schoengarth of Janesville; Mrs. Donald (Judy) Zank of Janesville; and Raymond Meier with the Marines in Vietnam. Other survivors are his mother, Mrs. Christine Meier of Memorial Home; three sisters, Mrs. Albert (Ella) Meihak and Mrs. Fritz (Dorothy) Quast, both of Neillsville, and Mrs. Harold (Helen) Beyer of Stoughton; six brothers, Ed of Neillsville, William of Merrill, Frank of Salem, Ore., Louie, Clarence and Charles all of the Neillsville area.