Obit: Kuehl, Ivan (1947 – 1968)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kuehl, Price, Shoemaker, Draymal

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 29 Feb 1968

Kuehl, Ivan (1947 – 1968)

(Something is wrong with the way this obit was published. It does not say his death date, but it shows two dates for his funeral, one on Jan. 25th, 1968 and the other on Feb. 19th, 1968. I since this is the Feb. 29th edition, I assume the Feb. 19th date is the correct one for his funeral.)
Funeral services for Ivan Kuehl, 21 years old, were held on Jan. 25, 1968.

Born in the town of Butler, route 3, Thorp (Clark Co), Wis. in 1947, moving to Eau Claire nine years ago with his parents, Mrs. Fern Kuehl and Victor Hug Kuehl of Qustine, Calif.

In 1965 he enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy, and was discharge from duty in 1967, and made his home in Eau Claire at the home of his mother since that time.

Pallbearers were his Shoemaker uncles.

Left to mourn his departure are his mother, Fern Kuehl, his father, Victor Kuehl,; two brothers, Vilas and family of Augusta, Wis., and Theodore Kuehl of Fort Mead, Maryland; three sisters, (Iona) Mrs. James Price, Louise and Ed Mae, and one half-brother, Victor Hugo Kuehl Jr., and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Kuehl, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Shoemaker, who preceded him in death several years ago. He was engaged on the last Christmas Day to be married to Linda Draymal of August in the fall of 1968.

Funeral service were held Monday, Feb. 19th at 1:30 p.m. by Clergyman Rev. Johnson, with burial in the Scandinavian Luther Cemetery, Eau Claire, Wis., is his final resting place, as he was a member of the Scandinavian Lutheran Church.