rwbrauer@iland.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Hoehns" <rwbrauer@iland.net> To: <MOBENTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:51 AM Subject: Elmer Kreisel, died > Please note: Many obits contain many errors. > > Sedalia Democrat > > COLE CAMP - Elmer Kreisel, 29, died Sunday of an apparently self-inflicted > gunshot wound to the head, Benton County Coroner John Reser, Warsaw, said > Monday. > > Kreisel's body was discovered around 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the bedroom of his > home, 4 miles east of here, by his father. Oscar Kreisel had returned from a > two-hour hunting trip. The victim reportedly shot himself with a deer rifle. > > The incident was investigated by Benton County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Crenshaw > and Reser. Crenshaw said Kreisel, an Army veteran of the Vietnam war, had > previously undergone psychiatric treatment at the Harry S. Truman Memorial > Veteran's Hospital in Columbia. > > He was born December 22, 1945, at Cole Camp, son of Oscar and Anna Steffens > Kreisel. > > Additional survivors include four brothers, Albert Kreisel, Otterville; > Harry Kreisel, Stockton, Mo.; Fred Kreisel, Cole Camp; and Oscar Kreisel > Jr., Terre Haute, Ind.; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Bell Lang, 13171/2 East > Fourth, Sedalia; Mrs. Wilbur (Minnie) Canida, Lincoln; Mrs. Steve (Mary > Alice) Kraft, Big Sandy, Tex.; and Mrs. Kenneth (Helma) Wheeler, 1325 East > Fourth, Sedalia. > > Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Fox Funeral Home here > with Darryl Watson officiating. > > Military rites will be conducted by American Legion Post 305 at the Union > Cemetery here. > > rwbrauer@iland.net >