Obit: Goessl, Irving C. (1885 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Goessl, Schaefer, Stoiber, Decker, Kapfhamer, Ditter, Gutenberger

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08 Sep 1976

Goessl, Irving C. (10 Nov 1885 – 06 Sep 1976)

Irving C. Goessl, 90, Route 1, Curtiss, died at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the emergency room of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. Death was attributed to an apparent heart attack.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Louis Catholic Church in Dorchester. Burial will be in Dorchester Memorial Cemetery. The Rev. James F. Schaefer, pastor, will officiate.

Friends may call at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home in Dorchester after 3 p.m. Wednesday. There will be a Ladies Altar-Rosary Society service at 4 p.m. Wednesday, at the funeral Home, followed by a parish rosary at 8 p.m., and the National Catholic Society of Foresters rosary at 8:30 p.m.

Mr. Goessl was born November 10, 1885 in the Town of Hoard. He married the former Mary Stoiber on September 22, 1910. She died March 6, 1915. He then married Theresa Decker on November 10, 1921. She survives.

He farmed in the Town of Hoard all of his life. He served as secretary-treasurer of Clover Hill Cheese Factory for 28 years, and was on the board of directors for Clark Electric for 12 years. He also served many years on the board of directors for the Dorchester Co-op.

He was a member and chief ranger of the men’s Catholic Society of Foresters for many years, and was a member of Dorchester Senior Citizens Club and St. Louis Catholic Church.

In addition to his wife, eh is survived by five sons, Clarence and Orlando, both of Stetsonville, Herbert and Peter, both of Curtiss, and Theodore of Marshfield; four daughters, Mrs. John (Mercedes) Kapfhamer of Stetsonville, Mrs. Ray (Marcella) Ditter, Benson, Arizona, Mrs. Roy (Ethel) Gutenberger, Milwaukee, and Sister Celing (Doris), of Holy Cross in Merrill; 52 grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren.

He also was preceded in death by a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.