Michael Backfisch Sr.

NEW HAMBURG, Mo. -- Funeral mass for Michael Joseph Backfisch Sr. of New Hamburg will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church. The Rev. Normand Varone will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton, Mo., after 4 p.m. Sunday. A prayer service will be held at 6 p.m.

Backfisch, 53, died Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001, at his home.

He was born April 26, 1948, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joseph Lawrence and Lucille Rose Halter Backfisch.

Backfisch was service manager at Ford Groves in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of St. Lawrence Church.

He served in the U.S. Army.

Survivors include a son, Michael Backfisch Jr. of New Hamburg; a daughter, Michelle Backfisch of New Hamburg; three brothers, Harold Backfisch of Benton, Jerome and Vincent Backfisch of New Hamburg; two sisters, Mary Ann Chaney of Bethalto, Ill., Therese Ansberry of Cedar Hill, Tenn.; a special friend, Marcia Abernathy of Cape Girardeau; and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.