rwbrauer@iland.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Hoehns" <rwbrauer@iland.net> To: <MOBENTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:50 AM Subject: Mrs. Oscar Kreisel Funeral Rites > Please note: Many obits contain many errors. > > Cole Camp Courier, August 13, 1964 > > Mrs. Oscar Kreisel Funeral Rites > > Mrs. Anna Katherine Kreisel, wife of Oscar Kreisel, passed away at the home > of her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Canida of Lincoln Route 2 at 9:00 > o'clock Friday morning, August 7 at the age of 47 years, 4 months and 10 > days. She had been ill the past five weeks and hospitalized part of the > time. > > Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Fox Funeral > Chapel in Cole Camp with the Rev. Arthur G. Kuecker of Stover, officiating. > > Pallbearers were Larry Steffens, Ray Dean Brauer, Elroy Brauer, Edward > Brauer, Frank Kreisel and Joby Vaughn. > > Interment was in the Mt. Hulda cemetery south of Cole Camp. > > Mrs. Anna Katherine Kreisel, nee Steffens, was born March 27, 1917 at Cole > Camp, Mo., a daughter of Mrs. Maggie A. Koeller Steffens and the late Henry > C. Steffens. She was baptized in the Mt. Hulda Lutheran Church on April 10, > 1917. On April 19, 1931 she was confirmed in the Mt. Hulda Lutheran Church > by the Rev. W. O. Petzoldt. > > On March 15, 1936 she was united in marriage to Mr. Oscar Kreisel. The > couple resided in Sedalia until 1939 when they moved to their farm five > miles east of Cole Camp. > > Seven children were born to this union, all of whom survive. > > Survivors include her husband, Oscar Kreisel of the home; four sons, Albert > E. Kreisel, Sedalia; Harry L. Kreisel, Ft. Polk, Louisiana; Elmer L. > Kreisel, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.; and Fred J. Kreisel of the home near Cole > Camp; three daughters, Anna Bell, Mrs. Fred Lang, Kansas City, Mo.; Minnie, > Mrs. Wilbur Canida, Lincoln, Mo.; Miss Mary Alice Kreisel at home; two step > children, Oscar H. Kreisel, Jr., Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Helma, Mrs. > Kenneth Wheeler, Sedalia, Mo.; two grandchildren, six step-grandchildren; > two sisters, Miss Irene Steffens, Cole Camp and Mrs. Dora Brauer, Cole Camp; > and two brothers, Fred Steffens and Elmer Steffens, both of Cole Camp. > > rwbrauer@iland.net >