Obit: Wendt, Virgil Harold (1949 - 2005)

Poster: Crystal Wendt

Email: Post4LincolnCoWi@aol.com

 

Surnames: Wendt, Kleinschmidt, Schmidt, Hardinger, Beversdorf

---Source: Merrill Foto News (Merrill, Lincoln County, Wis.) 30 March 2005; Page 12

---Wendt, Virgil Harold (3 Oct. 1949 - 27 March 2005)

Virgil H. Wendt, age 55, Merrill, died Sunday, March 27, 2005, at the Good Samaritan Health Center.

Born in Merrill on October 3, 1949. Virgil was the son of Harold and the late Rosalie Kleinschmidt Wendt. He married Mae Schmidt on September 19, 1970 in the Town of Scott. She survives.

Virgil graduated from Merrill High School in 1967. He served in the U. S. Army as an electrician and in electronic communications. Virgil had been employed at Semling-Menke Company in Merrill. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Merrill. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, four-wheeling, cooking, gardening, helping on the farm, and spending time in the woods at the cabin with his grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Mae Wendt, Merrill; daughter, Melissa (Thomas) Hardinger, Marshfield; son, Jesse (Crystal) Wendt, Marietta, Ga.; two grandchildren, Carissa and Nicholas; and his father Harold, Merrill. Also surviving are his sister Norma and brothers Jack and Glen (Brenda), all of Merrill; and his mother-in-law, Leona Schmidt. He was preceded in death by his mother, Rosalie "Rose" Wendt.

Funeral services are Thursday, March 31, 11:30 a.m., at St. John Lutheran Church, Merrill. Rev. Alden Beversdorf will officiate. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, town of Scott. The family will receive friends on Wednesday evening, March 30, between 4 and 8 p.m. at the Waid Funeral Home, Merrill, and again Thursday morning from 10:30 a.m. to the hour of services.

 

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