PEARL KREUSER
 

Services were held on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Loyal, for Pearl Kreuser, 83, 1200 Lakeview Dr., Wausau, a former Loyal, Clark County resident. Rev. Chester Osowski officiated and burial was in St. Anthony's Cemetery. Mrs. Kreuser was a resident for the past two years at Sunnyvale Nursing Home, Wausau. She died Saturday morning, Sept. 16, 1978 at Wausau Hospital North.

Pearl (Ratelle) Kreuser was born Sept. 10, 1895 at Marsh Rapids, Wis. She attended parochial and high school at Loyal.

Before her marriage to Alfred Ake Kreuser on April 20, 1920 at St. Anthony's Church, Loyal, she was a telephone operator in Loyal. They moved to Wausau in 1936. After her husband's death in 1943, she continued working in the Kreuser's Trailer Sales as owner and operator. She was the first Tupperware dealer in Central Wisconsin. She was a member of St. Mary's Church at Wausau, and its Ladies Aid. She was a 40 year member of the Montgomery Plant Legion Auxiliary at Wausau.

Rinka Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Loretta Tucker, Loyal and two nieces, Mrs. Beverly Bethke, Wausau and Mrs. Clayton (Kathleen) Englebretson, Loyal.

Pallbearers were Paul Englebretson, Timothy Englebretson, Patrick Englebretson, Eric Englebretson, Robert Schultz and Jesse Zvolena.

Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 09/13/1978