This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PITCHER DURAND WAYER HAESSLY KNAPP COULTHURST BRULEY GRUNA Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/2325 Message Board Post: SPJ July 22, 2002 Jerome "Jerry" E. Pitcher, 63, 2832 Mary St., died Friday, July 19, 2002, at St. Michael's Hospital. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Peter Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Stephen Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Pisarski/ Dzikoski Funeral Home, where a general rosary will be prayed at 7 p.m., and again from 9 a.m. until the time of services Tuesday at the church. Born Dec. 31, 1938, in Stevens Point, he was a son of the late George and Bertha (Wayer) Pitcher. His marriage to Ione Durand took place on June 18, 1960, in Abrams. Jerry was employed with the Stevens Point Parks Department from 1971 to 1979. Survivors include his wife, Ione; three daughters, Linda (Kenneth) Haessly, Junction City, and Brenda (Ron Smith) Pitcher and Rhonda (Rodney) Knapp, all of Stevens Point; two sons, David (Kris) Pitcher and Michael Pitcher, all of Stevens Point; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Donald (Pat) Pitcher, Muskego, and Richard Pitcher, Stevens Point; and three sisters, Bev (Dick) Coulthurst, Almond, Dorothy (Jerold) Bruley, Pickerel, and Pat (Norm) Gruna, Wittenberg.