Obit: Sauer, Walter M. #2 (1946 - 1964)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Sauer, Loos, Riemer

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 20 Aug 1964

Sauer, Walter M. (26 JUL 1946 - 7 AUG 1964)

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Colby for Walter M. Sauer, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sauer, route 1, Unity, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident Friday night, aug. 7, 1964.

The Rev. John Pinion officiated and burial was made in the Colby Cemetery. The school choir sang and Sister Louise Ann accompanied them at the organ.

Pallbearers were Dennis Schraufnagel, Glenn Weiler, Gary Palmerton, Dean Loos, Darrell Loos, Colby, and Joseph Werner, Dorchester.

Attending the services were many relatives and friends from Colby, Unity, Dorchester, Spencer, Abbotsford, Marshfield, Stratford, Wausau, Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Woodstock and Elmwood, Ill., Fond du lac and Hartford.

Walter Michael Sauer was born July 26, 1946, at Marshfield. The family lived at Medford until 1953, when they moved to Woodstock, Ill. Since December 1958, the family has lived in the Colby area. Walter graduated May 1964, as an honor student, from Colby High School, and was to enter the University of Wisconsin, river Falls, this fall. Following graduation he was employed at Zuther's DeLaval in Colby.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Colby, and an active member of the Cherokee Chums 4-H Club and the Colby Chapter of the Future Farmers of America.

Survivors include his parents; a sister, Eunice; two brothers, Clifford and Roger, all at home; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Loos, Colby, and Mrs. Catherine Sauer, Medford, and his maternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Fannie Riemer, Colby.