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Benjamin Bartholeman Faust
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- ↑ Funeral services for Benjamin Faust, 66, od R. 1, Elkhart Lake, a Town of Schleswig farmer, will be held Monday at Kiel.
The requiem Mass will be offered at 10 AM at Ss. Peter and Paul Church following brief family rites at 9:30 AM at the Meiselwitz Funeral Home. The Rev. George Kiefer, pastor, will officiate.
The body will lie in state at the funeral home after 2 PM Sunday.
Members of the Holy Name Society of the parish will hold a vigil at the funeral home at 8 PM Sunday, and the Catholic Knights will pray the rosary at 8:30 PM.
Mr. Faust died Friday morning at St. Nicholas Hospital.
He was born May 14, 1897, on the family homestead farm in the Town of Schleswig, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Faust, attended public schools at Kiel, and was married to Josephine Thuecks of Charlesburg at St. Charles Catholic Church Septemeber 28, 1926.
The couple settled on the Faust farm which has been in the family for 100 years. They have operated the farm since their marriage.
Mr. Faust was a member of the Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Kiel, the Holy Name Society and the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He was president of the Catholic Knights at the time of his death.
Survivors are his wife; six daughters, Mrs. Willard (Isabelle), R. 1, Elkhart Lake, Mrs. Roger (Caroline) Nowokataky, St. Nazianz, Miss La Verne and Miss Florence Faust, Elkhart Lake and Mrs. Hugo (Delores) Hartmann, R. 2, Kiel; four sons, Gilbert of R. 1, Elkhart Lake, Elmer and Melvin of Kiel, and Lester of Elkhart Lake and 15 grandchildren.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Meyers of Detroit, Mrs. George Diels, of Sheboygan, and two brothers, Peter Faust of Sheboygan and Raymond Faust of Kiel.
A son, Edwin, preceded him in death in 1957.
Sheboygan Press, January 18, 1964 - ↑ Sponsers:
Bartholoman Wisekel
Concessa Faust
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