This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kussman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2600 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Friday, 8/13/1965. Walter F. Kussman, 72, Town of Norrie, died today at 5:30 a.m. in a Calumet, Mich., hospital. He suffered a stroke nine days ago while vacationing in Calumet. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Kopitzke Funeral Home at Birnamwood. The Rev. Kenneth Marquardt, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Birnamwood, will officiate and burial will be in Forest Cemetery at Birnamwood. The body will be at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday. Mr. Kussman was born Nov. 14, 1893, in Chicago, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kussman. He moved to the Town of Norrie with his parents in 1897, where he farmed. He was a World War I veteran and a member of Darling - Gunderson Post 341, American Legion, at Birnamwood. The post will conduct graveside military rites. Survivors include a brother, William, and a sister, Miss Clara Kussman, both of the Town of Norrie.