Obit: Bungert, Harry R. (1918 – 1968)

Transcriber: Pam Harders - posted4u@charter.net 

Surnames: Bungert, Schumacher, Barts, Augustine, Luetschwager, Butalla

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 23 May 1968

Bungert, Harry R. (4 APR 1918 – 20 MAY 1968)

Harry R. Bungert, 50, of the town of Johnson (Marathon Co., Wis.), route, 2, Athens, died unexpectedly at 6:45 p.m. Monday. He apparently suffered a heart attack while helping tear down a cheese factory near his home.

Funeral services will be held Friday, May 24, at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas Catholic Church, Milan, with the Rev. Charles Schumacher officiating. Burial will take place at St. Mary's Cemetery at Marathon.

Pallbearers for the interment will be Lawrence Augustine, Leonard Jantsch, Peter Horacek, John Kralcik, Robert Guralski and Mathew Poehnelt.

The American Legion posts of Edgar and Athens will form an honor guard.

The Gilles and Son Funeral Home of Athens is in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Bungert was born April 4, 1918, at Marathon. His marriage to the former Gertrude Barts, who survives him, took place at Marathon August 31, 1940. He is a veteran of World War II, and for the past 18 years, lived on a farm in the town of Johnson. Since January of 1968, he worked as a substitute mail clerk at the Athens post office, and he also worked for Toelle Surge Service of Colby.

He was a member of St. Thomas Catholic Church at Milan, St. Leo's Court of the Catholic Order of Foresters of Marathon, and the Sawyer-Drumm American Legion Post at Edgar. He also served as zone chairman for the dairy committee of the Marathon County NFO.

Surviving, besides his wife, are two daughters, Mrs. Dale Augustine of the town of Halsey, and Jean Bunger, at home, and two grandchildren. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Raymond (Anna) Bungert, a brother, LaVern of Edgar, and two sisters, Mrs. James Luetschwager of Athens and Mrs. Joseph Butalla of Marathon.