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Schessler, Samuel A. 1880-1945

SCHESSLER

Posted By: Plymouth CC
Date: 2/14/2004 at 12:10:03

Samuel A. Schessler, Long Deputy Sheriff
of Plymouth County, Dies

LeMars, Iowa. ---- Special: Samuel Augusta Schessler, 65, deputy sheriff of Plymouth county the last 25 years, died in a hospital here after a long illness on September 19, 1945.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church here. Rev. J. J. Share will officiate. Burial will be in the City Cemetery, directed by Luken's funeral home.

Mr. Schessler was born July 31, 1880, at Washington, Illinois. He was a member of the Marcus, Iowa, police force, and of the LeMars police force for three years before becoming deputy sheriff. He was married October 5, 1929, at Elk Point, S. Dak.

Surviving are the widow, Emma; two sons, Vernon of Sunnyvale, Calif, and Roy of Berkeley, Calif; a daughter, Mrs. Violet Hanna of San Bernardino, Calif; two brothers, Lee of Mount Laguna, Calif, and Pete of Los Angeles; three sisters, Anna, Florence and Elizabeth all in Illinois; a stepson, Wesley Nielsen of Gainesville, Ga, and a stepdaughter, Gladys Nielsen of Ann Arbor, Michigan.


 

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