Obit: Kuester, Gustav Jr. (1929-1963)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kuester, Rossow, May, Schmidt, Welsh, Schefus

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (13 December 1963)

Kuester, Gustav P., Jr. (13 May 1929- 12 December 1963)

LOYAL-- Funeral services will be Saturday at the Myre Funeral Home for Gustave P. Kuester, Tomahawk, who died Thursday morning. The Rev. A. M. Moldenhauer, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church will officiate, and burial will be made in the Lutheran cemetery. The body is reposing at the Myre Funeral Home.

Gustave Kuester, Jr. was born May 13, 1929 in the town of Loyal, where he spent his early life. As a young man he moved with his parents to Waukesha. The past three years he had lived with his brother, Edwin Kuester, at Tomahawk.

He is survived by his father, Gustav Kuester, Sr., Waukesha; four sisters, Mrs. Edward (Lillian) Rossow, Loyal; Mrs. James (Leona) May, Lisbon, Ohio; Mrs. Henry (Minnie) Schmidt, Towner, North Dakota; and Mrs. Orie (Florence) Welsh, Tomahawk; four brothers, Alfred Kuester, Henry and Harry Kuester, Waukesha; and Edwin Kuester, Tomahawk; and a half-brother, Herman Schefus, Loyal.

He was preceded in death by his mother and a brother.