This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TFC.2ACE/652 Message Board Post: THE WAUKESHA FREEMAN August 2, 1933 Waukesha, WI OBITURARY Albert O. Stiede Funeral services for Albert O. Stiede, 26, a bugler at Ft. Brady who received his honorable discharge after nine years of service in the United States Army July 22, were conducted at the Ray Biggs Company Funeral Home, 122 West Broadway, Wednesday, Aug. 2, at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. A. L. Drake, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated, and burial was in the Mukwonago cemetery. The pallbearers were Dr. F. J. Dergholte, John Hawtin, Oscar Highley, Harry Hoffman, Edward Seybold and Chris Volpano, all former guardsman of the Wisconsin National Gaurds, Hospital Co. 183 135th Medical Regt., in which the deceased served before his enlistment in the army. Stiede was accidentally drowned of Alcott beach, near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Sunday, July 23, when he jumped from a sinking motor boat in an attempt to reach shore. He was to have married Miss Nellie Mayberry of Detroit, Mich., last week. He is survived by his father, William A. Stiede in Battle Creek, Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. A. D. Conrad, Mrs. John Schaeffer, both of Waukesha, and Mrs. T. O. McCutchin, Arena, Wis.; one brother, Leonard Stiede, Waukesha. His body was not recovered until Monday night although coast guards began searching for it immediately after the tragedy occurred.