WILBERT RUESLER

JACKSON -- Funeral for Wilbert H. Ruesler of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Paul Lutheran Church. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today. An honor guard service will be held at 7.

Ruesler, 83, died Monday, Sept. 13, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 25, 1915, at Friedheim, son of Arthur and Anna Dickmann Ruesler. He and Ida Pohlmann were married May 18, 1943.

Ruesler had been a mechanic at Ford Groves in Cape Girardeau, and worked at Jackson Post Office from 1964 until retiring in 1979.

He was a member of St. Paul Church and its Men's Club, Lutheran Laymen's League, Aid Association for Lutherans, and treasurer of the JOY Group.

Ruesler was a member of American Legion Post 158 in Jackson, VFW Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau, and was president of Disabled American Veterans in Cape Girardeau.

He served in the U.S. Army Cavalry Division during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Wayne Ruesler of Sikeston; four daughters, Marilyn Ferkel of St. Louis, Charlotte Blumenschein of Marysville, Ohio, Janet Stoffle of Harlan, Ky., and Sharon Laxton of Scott City.

Also surviving are two sisters, Verna Best of Gordonville, Virgie Schubert of Perryville; a brother, Harold Ruesler of Jackson; and 12 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers.