WILBUR F. RUESSLER

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Wilbur Francis Ruessler of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Highland. The Rev. Robert Brockland will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel from 6:30-9:30 a.m. today.

Ruessler, 79, died Sunday, June 11, 1995, at Perry County Memorial Hospital,

He was born July 22, 1915, in Perry County, son of Henry Carl and Amelia Behrle Ruessler. He and Anna May Mattingly were married Sept. 24, 1935.

Ruessler was a shoe factory foreman 25 years. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church at Highland.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Walter Ruessler of Arnold, Paul and David Ruessler of Perryville; three daughters, Betty Andrews of St. Louis, Loretta Hyde of St. Marys, Shirley Geile of Perryville; 15 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister.