Obit: Giesel, Veronica (1915 - 1964)

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Surnames: Giesel, Schwieso

----Source: The Loyal Triune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 17 Dec 1964

Giesel, Veronica (19 Jan 1915-26 Jan 1964)

Funeral services were held at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m. on November 30 for Mrs. Veronica Giesel, formerly of Loyal, who passed away at Farfield Park Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, November 28, following cancer surgery.

The former Veronica Francis Schweiso was born on January 1915 to Mr. and Mrs. John Schwieso, both deceased. She received her elementary and high school education at St. Anthony’s Catholic and Loyal Public Schools. She was a graduate of St Joseph’s School of Nursing and received her R.N. in 1941. She joined the Army Nurses Corps on December 1, 1941 and underwent basic training at Fort Custer, Kalamazoo, Michigan. In January of 1942 she was sent ro the Figi Islands and in 1942 she married Captain Ray Giesel at Samoa, Figi. She was comissoned a second lieutenant.

Survivors are one daughter, Pamela Ann of Chicago, Illinois; Miss Evelyn Schwieso, Theodore Schwieso, Jeanette Cole and Donald beaver, Loyal.

Preceding her death were three infant children, her parents and a sister ,Lucille Gilbrandt.

Burial was made in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Chicago.