Branch Army
Serial number 37697994
Enlisted Camp Dodge, Herrold, Iowa June 5, 1944
Rank Private
Discharge May 31, 1946
SERVICES WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1986, 1:30 PM OHDE FUNERAL HOME MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING PASTOR RANDY ROSS FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MANNING, IOWA
ORGANIST CONNIE SIEPKER
VOCALIST JUDY JOENS
INTERMENT WHEATLAND CEMETERY
CASKETBEARERS: LEONARD FREESE, JR., DENNIS LAMAAK, TIM WOLLESEN,
RALPH FREESE, JR., DARRELL FREESE, HAROLD FREESE
MILITARY HONORS VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3517, EMIL
EWOLDT POST 22 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION MANNING, IOWA
THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE WHEATLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOLLOWING THE COMMITTAL SERVICE
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 17, at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning with the Rev. Randy Ross, minister of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Connie Siepker will be organist and Judy Joens vocalist. Burial, with military honors, will be in Wheatland cemetery near Breda. Serving as casketbearers will be nephews: Leonard Freese, Jr.; Dennis Lamaak, Tim Wollesen, Ralph Freese, Jr.; Darrell Freese and Harold Freese.
Mr. Freese is survived by his wife, Clara, Manning; three children: Mrs. Kenneth (Cyla) Schrum, Catoosa, Oklahoma; LaRay Freese and his wife, Polly, Sand Springs, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Danny (Nylene) Thielen, rural Audubon; eight grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters: Virgil Freese, Early; Delores Artlett, Wall Lake; Leonard Freese, Manilla; Kate Lamaak, Wall Lake; Ralph Freese, Wall Lake; Grace Wollesen, Wall Lake; Robert Freese, Lake View; Pearl Kelly, California, and a sister-in-law, Darlene Freese, Ida Grove.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Lester; three siblings in infancy; a nephew and a niece.
Mr. Freese was born near Breda on April 8, 1923, a son of Ralph and Grace Fischer Freese. He attended rural schools and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
On December 31, 1947, he was married to Clara Smidt. They lived in Lake View, Kiron and Wall Lake and for the past 27 years in Manning. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and the Presbyterian Church.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Tuesday, September 16, 1986