This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perske, Ahlmann Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2554 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Monday, 3/25/1957. Gustav Julius Perske, 87, a local resident for 74 years, died Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Ritter & Deutsch Funeral Home, with the Rev. P. W. Roehrs, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery later in the spring. Mr. Perske was born Feb. 25, 1870, in Germany, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Perske. He came to America at the age of 13 with his parents and was married in the city Jan. 12, 1894, to Miss Wilhelmina Ahlmann, who died March 17, 1929. For more than 40 years, Mr. Perske had been custodian of the Franklin School. Surviving are two sons, Paul F. Perske, 315 Lincoln Ave., and Bernhardt Perske, 120 S. Fifth Ave., six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.