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Funeral services for Gottlieb
Ruesch, 67, retired rural mail
carrier who died Tuesday, June
26, from complications due to a
heart ailment, were conducted
last Saturday at the Evangelical
Community church in Medford.
Pallbearers were Jos. Kress jr.,
Herman Roeber, George Ruesch,
Ed Neuendorf, Herman Loertscher, and Herman Holtz. The Rev.
G.E. Pauloweit officiated at the church services and at the interment which was in the Evergreen
cemetery. Ruesch was a cigar maker in earlier years, in partnership with his brothers Robert and August, leaving that business to take the mail job on April 1, 1914. He retired from the mail route Nov. 1, 1941. He was born at Oftringen, Argau, Switzerland, December 1, 1877, and came to this country, to the town of Browning, when he was five years old. In 1905 he was married to Miss Agnes Hartwig at Medford. He is survived by his wife and seven children: Earle, Medford; David, U.S. Navy, California; Esther, Mrs. Alvin Tippelt, Medford; Vernon, Cleveland; Cpl. Hartwig, U.S. Army, Newark, N.J.; Lyddon, Milwaukee; Lt. Ruth, Army nurse corps, Amarillo, Texas. Three brothers, Fred, town of Browning, Herman and Ernest, of Medford; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Grahl and Mrs. Martha Rackow, of Medford, and Mrs. Ida Holtz of Dorchester, and seven grandchildren also are among the survivors. Out of town relatives here for the funeral were: Mrs and Mrs. Cash Allemang and Mr. and Mrs. Ned Molbreak, Madison; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Comeau, Oshkosh; Mrs. A.G. Hemer, Mondovi; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meyer, Thorp; Mrs. Luther Thompson, Mrs. Harold Speugler, Miss Dorothy Thompson, New London; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nelson, Prentice. |