WILSON WILLIAM WILKE 1912-1989

NEVERMAN, WILKE, MIENE, BACKHAUS, TIMMERMAN

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 4/26/2007 at 21:23:07

Wilson Wilke

Funeral services for Wilson Wilke were held Tuesday, August 15, 1989 at 11:00 a.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church at Postville. The Rev. Charles Miller officiated. The Schutte Funeral Service of Postville was in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery at Monona at a later date.

Wilson William Wilke, son of William and Bertha (Neverman) Wilke, was born December 15, 1912 at Luana. He died Friday night, August 11, in Veterans Hospital at Iowa City.

He attended school at Dubuque. On September 21, 1949 he was married to Dorothy M. Miene at Waterloo. Wilson served in the U. S. Army during WW II.

He and his wife Dorothy have lived in the Postville area for over 40 years. He had been employed at the Postville Feed Mill for 23 years and also at the Hygrade Packing Plant for several years.

Wilson was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville and the American Legion.

He is preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Harlan Wilke and two sisters, Marcella Backhaus and Mardella Wilke.

Surviving are his wife, Dorothy, a son, Walter and his wife, Dianne, of Lincoln, Nebraska, three grandchildren, Tammi Schmucker of Bremerton, Washington, Wendi Williams of Otoe, Nebraska, and Kandi Wilke of Lincoln, NE and one great-grandson, Justin Williams and a sister, Mrs. Theodore (Pearl) Timmerman of Monona.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection. Submitter has no further information.