CHESTER NIEDERSTADT

POPLAR BLUFF -- Chester Niederstadt, 70, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994, at the Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff.

He was born June 30, 1924, in Poplar Bluff, son of the late Arthur and Laura Peters Niederstadt.

Niederstadt was a former resident of the Essex area and lived in Poplar Bluff for the past seven years. He was a retired welder on pipeline construction. He was also a member of the Essex Baptist Church.

On April 18, 1993, he married Ruby Strickland in Poplar Bluff. She survives.

Other survivors are three sons, Chester of Dexter, Minn., Austin of Guthrie, Okla., and James of Malden; one daughter, Julia Moore of Poplar Bluff; one stepson, Thomas McCullough of Granite City, Ill.; two stepdaughters, Clara Monehan of Puxico and Molene Chaliqoj of Doniphan; a sister, Sue Wismer of Savannah, Tenn.; a brother, Holland of Poplar Bluff; a stepbrother, Bill Knight of Lowndes; nine grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and four stepgreat-grandchildren.

Services will be today at 1 p.m. at the Watkins and Sons Chapel in Dexter. The Rev. Tom Norris of Poplar Bluff will officiate, with burial in the Essex Cemetery.