Obit: Amdahl, Edmund C. (1933 - 1963)

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Surnames: Amdahl, Kosar, Booth, Holter

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 12/12/1963

Amdahl, Edmund C. (3 FEB 1933 - 5 DEC 1963)

Funeral services for Edmund C. Amdahl, 30, a resident of West Maple St., Stanley, who was killed Thursday noon when his milk truck rolled over him, was held Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, at 2 o’clock at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Stanley. Rev. Carl Peters officiated, with interment in the East Side Cemetery.

Mr. Amdahl was born in Thorp Township, Clark County, Feb. 3, 1933, the son of Edward and Harriet Amdahl. He graduated from the Stanley High School in 1951, and entered the U.S. Navy Air Corps in 1952. He was stationed at Corpus Christie, Texas and Jacksonville, Fla., and spent six months in the Mediterranean, receiving his honorable discharge in 1956. He farmed for one year with his father and then started hauling milk for the Falls Dairy in Stanley. His marriage to Shirley Kosar took place at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Stanley Oct. 18, 1958.

He was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

Surviving are his wife, Shirley; two children, Jerome and Sandra, both at home; his father, Edward of Stanley, and two foster sisters, Mrs. Dale (Janet) Booth, South Ben, Wash., and Mrs. Clarence (Marian) Holter of Portland, Ore. His mother preceded him in death.