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- Joseph Schmeiser, 64, Wapello, Dies; Funeral Tuesday
Special to the Democrat
Wapello, Ia. – Joseph Schmeiser, 64, retired farmer, died suddenly in his home in West Wapello Saturday night following a heart attack. The son of Jacob and Mary Magdalene Reese Schmeiser, he was born at Franklin Mills, north of Burlington, Feb. 10, 1876, and April 10, 1901, married Mary Rieman. The ceremony was performed by his father, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church. To this union four children: Orval, Wapello; twin sister, Ora Marie, who died 29 years ago; Mrs. Mearl Melson, Richland, and Mrs. Clayton Robertson, Morning Sun, where born. Mr. Schmeiser resided on a farm near Burlington until [can't read date], when the family moved to the farm west of Wapello, now operated by his son, Orval. The home had been in Wapello the past two years.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Presbyterian church which he had attended the past few years. The Rev. John R. Fraser and the Rev. B.G. Hankins, Mt. Pleasant, will officiate. The service will be preceded by prayer in the Jamison Dudgeon funeral home. Burial will be in the Wapello cemetery. The widow and children and two sisters, Mrs. Tabitha Riepe and Miss Talitha Schmeiser, Burlington, and two brothers, Emmanuel, Wapello, and Ben Schmeiser, Sperry, survive.
Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa. Monday, 11 November 1940.
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