Wilhelm, Louis D. 1916-2004

WILHELM, OSWALT, HEISEL, SHELLMAN, NEWMAN, BLUCHER, FULTON, HERMANN, SISNEROS, BRYAN, ACKER, PAYNE, FOSTER

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 6/28/2004 at 19:53:49

Louis D. Wilhelm
June 23, 2004

Louis D. Wilhelm, 88, who lived at 28819 105th Street in Stockport, died at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Behner Funeral Home, with the Rev. Jim Wotherspoon officiating. Burial with military rites will be at Glasgow Cemetery in Glasgow.

Family visitation will be from 6:30-8 p.m. Friday at the Behner Funeral Home.

Memorials can be made to Stockport First Responders or the respiratory department of Van Buren County Hospital.

Mr. Wilhelm was born March 13, 1916, near Traer, Kan., the son of Fred and Ethel Oswalt Wilhelm. He married Marjory Pauline Heisel November 11, 1945, in Fairfield. She died June 22, 2002.

Mr. Wilhelm moved to Iowa in 1936 and was employed by Miles Shellman in Winfield, Tom Newman of Stockport and Bill Blucher of Glasgow. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II in the Philippines and the Hawaiian islands. After the war, he worked for Triangle Construction Company at various quarries in the area. In addition, he farmed and worked for Supply Coop in Mount Pleasant for 18 years before he retired. He mowed Spencer Cemetery for 10 years.

He was a member of the American Legion Post, Elvin E. Cecil Unit 147 of Stockport.

Lou and his wife, Marjory, attended the Selma Jam at Selma for more than 25 years. He and several music friends played for dances and for several nursing homes in the area. He was in the "Hee-Haw" production in Birmingham.

Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Dennis and Luetta Fulton of Stockport; one niece whom the Wilhelms reared, Shirley Hermann of Jefferson City, Mo.; one granddaughter Melani Sisneros of Montrose, Colo.; one grandson Marlin Fulton of Delta, Colo.; seven great-grandchildren; two half-sisters, Billie Bryan of Oberlin, Kan., and Alice Acker of Beatrice, Neb.; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Charles Wilhelm; one sister, Erma Payne; and one half-sister, Mildred Foster.

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Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2004