Alcide Loisel 1922-1997

LOISEL WICK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/10/2012 at 14:40:49

Sioux City Journal
27 August 1997

Alcide Loisel,74, of Sergeant, Bluff died Saturday, Aug. 23, 1997, at his residence.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church in Sergeant Bluff, with the Rev. Michael C. Wolfram officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery at Salix, Iowa. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday, with the family present from 7 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Christy, Smith and Hockenberry Funeral Home.

Mr. Loisel was born Dec. 19, 1922,in Cloquet, Minn. He married Donna Wick on Feb. 7, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minn.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
He retired from the U.S. Air Force after serving 22 years. His awards and decorations include the World War II Victory Medal, the National Defense Service Medal with a Bronze Star, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle EaStern Campaign Medal, the Korean Serviee Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, the Army Good Conduct Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters,the Occupation Medal for Japan, and the Air Force Good Conduct Medal.

He was employed with Balsam-Wool and Match Mill and was the Co-op manager, both in Cloquet, Minn. The couple moved to Sergeant Bluff in 1964. He was employed as the manager of the Sioux City Boat Club, a counselor of the Boys and Girls Home in Sioux City and a counselor for Region 4 in South Sioux City.

He was a member of Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church, where he was a former elder and church historian and taught Sunday School. He was a volunteer for the National Park Service and Laborers for Christ.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters and their husbands, Linda and David Choquette, Lois and Norman Plantenberg and Laurel and Thomas Tainter, all of Sergeant Bluff; a daughter-in-law, Roberta Loisel of Sergeant Bluff; 15 grand-children, Jill Scott, Larry Jr. and Michael Loisel, Paul, William, Joshua and Nicole Choquette, Mark, Gary, Brian and Randy Plantenberg, Lisa Marksburg, and Tawnya, Jen¬nifer and Joel Tainter; six great-grandchildren; three brothers, George of Golden Eagle, Ill., Harry of Cloquet and Raymond of Procter, Minn.; and two sisters, Roseanna Schultz of International Falls, Minn. and Evelyn Loisel of South Haven, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Larry; a grandchild; two brothers, Felix and Gerald; and two sisters, Marcella and Lorraine.