Paul WESSELS

WESSELS, REICHARDT, SMIDT, CHAMBERS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/21/2007 at 01:17:12

Paul Wessels died November 29, 2000, at the Porter Hospice, in Denver, CO. Paul Wessels, the son of Leppo and Pauline (Reichardt) Wessels, was born on December 27, 1926, in Ventura, Hancock County. He was baptized in the Immanuel Reformed Church of Klemme in 1927. Paul attended rural Klemme schools through the eighth grade. He worked several years on farms in the Klemme and Clarion area. On October 9, 1946, he married Anne Elizabeth Smidt in Kanaha Christian Reformed Church. The couple lived on farms in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, where Paul was hired to manage the farms. They are parents of two children, a son, James and a daughter, Barbara. In 1962 the family moved to Denver, CO. Paul retired in 1989 from the Packaging Corporation of America in Denver after 23 years of service. Paul was an active memeber of the 2nd Christian Reformed Church, in Denver, CO. He enjoyed woodworking, crafts and camping.

Paul was preceded in death by his parents; grandparents; a sister, Martha, and eight brothers, Fred, William, John, Raymond, Benjamin, Bennie, Henry, and Elmer. Survivors include his wife, Ann of Denver, CO; son and daughter-in-law Jim and Victoria Wessels of Pueblo, CO; daughter and son-in-law Barb and Jerry Chambers of Denver, CO.

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