Bio: Felser, Dwayne (Veterans Service Officer -
1973)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail:
dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Felser, Ludovic,
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/23/1973
Felser, Dwayne (Veterans Service officer - 1973)
Dwayne Felser, 51, will begin duties officially in early September as the new
Clark County Veteran’s Affair Officer but stated that he may begin to organize
his office sometime this week.
Felser was selected at the recent meeting of the Clark County board of
Supervisors, August 14, succeeding the late Peter Ludovic, who died while in
office.
Married and the father of three children, Felser was employed as a mechanic with
Gross Chevrolet-Olds since the company moved to its Division street address
several years ago.
Felser’s new duties in his Clark County courthouse office will be centered on
assisting veterans in gaining burial allowance, VA loans, disability claims,
pensions, widow’s benefits, and GI educational grants for veterans returning to
school.
The new administrator related to the Press that the veteran’s officer on the
county level used to be a political appointment but that the state veteran’s
affairs office now played an active role in the selection of possible candidates
for the position.
After a local advertisement appeared in county newspapers, Felser applied, along
with 27 applicants for the position. All 27 were required to take a state test
composed of 122 questions on public law, business administration, and
psychology.
Only ten of the 27 passed the exam. From the ten who passed, the county board’s
veteran affairs committee interviewed each of the men and three were picked for
greater screening. Other candidates included James Wasserberger and Forest
Larsen.
After a deeper interview by the veteran’s committee members, the three were
nominated for a vote of the entire county board with the final result being
Felser’s gathering 20 votes out of the possible 27.
Felser’s service record includes being called to active duty in August of 1940
from the local Neillsville guard unit and being sent to Camp Beauregard and
Livingston in Louisiana.
From the southern camps he was sent to Fort Dixon in Massachusetts and believed
heading for the European front but the group was transferred to Fort Ord in
California and boarded troop ships for Australia.
Felser’s Infantry group faced battle in New Guinea and he was involved in the
first offensive campaign of the war in the Pacific theatre.
Rotation brought him back to the States where he was hospitalized for six months
in Brooks General Hospital in Texas with a case of Malaria.
It was in Texas that he met his wife, Annette, a native of San Antonio and they
were married in March of 1945.
With a discharge in September of 1945, Felser and his wife returned to his
Wisconsin home.
Felser’s children include Linda and Kathleen, both graduates of the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a son, Joseph, working for Svetlik Motor Company in
Neillsville.
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