CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Wilbert John (Bill) Lohmeier, Cape Girardeau Route 1, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Carl Richardson will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.
Lohmeier, 75 years old, died Monday, April 8, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
He was born May 12, 1915, at Claryville, son of George T. and Hulda A. Pick Lohmeier. He and the former Virginia Inman were married Aug. 21, 1938, in Blytheville, Ark.
Lohmeier worked on the river for Marquette Cement, John I. Hay Co. and A.L. Mechling. He owned and operated Gateway Tug Service out of St. Louis, retiring in 1978. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife; a son and daughter-in-law, John and Mila Lohmeier of Cape; a brother, Herman Lohmeier of Cape; two sisters, Alma Thies of Poplar Bluff, Edna Garrett of Chicago, and a grandson, Jimmy Lohmeier of Cape.
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