Obit: Wendel Frank A. (1898-1961)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wendel, Steger, Gravitter

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (21 August 1961)

LOYAL-- Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at St. Anthony's Catholic Church for Frank A. Wendel, 63, who died at his home here Saturday morning. The Rev. Norbert King will officiate and burial will be made in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Myre Funeral Home where the body is now reposing. A general rosary service will be conducted this evening.

Mr. Wendel was born in Loyal, January 2, 1898. He received his education in the Mack School and St. Anthony's Catholic School. He lived on the home farm in the town of Pelsdorf until 13 years ago when he moved to Loyal to make his home with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wendel. Mr. Wendel was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church. He never married.

Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. John (Susie) Steger, Los Angeles, California; and Mrs. Rudolph (Frances) Gravitter, Marshfield.

He was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.