Born August 6, 1881 Crawford County, Iowa
Entered Into Rest May 17, 1943 At Home
Age 61 Years, 9 Months, 11 Days
Services Held At Ohde Funeral Home May 20, 1943
Clergyman Reverend F.C. Israel Pastor Lutheran Church Manilla
Interment Manning Cemetery
Pallbearers: Clarence David, Alfred Walter, Phillip Wenzel, George Brady, Harry Lamaack, Merle Thompsen

Funeral services are to be at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. with the Rev. Mr. Israel, minister of the Manilla Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Wenzel, who was born August 6, 1881, one mile east of Manilla, son of Carl and Wilhelmine (Schwartz) Wenzel, had lived at his present farm home for the last thirty-three years. He was a farmer all of his life.

Thirty-five years ago, he was married to Miss Amanda Kai at her home east of Manilla.

Surviving with his wife are two children: Mrs. Howard Saunders (Emma) and Henry Wenzel, both of Manilla, and one grandchild.

He also leaves his step-mother, Catherine (Steckelberg) Wenzel of Ft. Dodge; two sisters, Rosa (Mrs. Fred) Rutz and Amalie (Mrs. Jacob) Fielweber, both of Manning; two brothers, Helmuth Wenzel of Manilla and Ben Wenzel of Manning; four half-sisters. Mrs. Harold Brown, Chicago, Mrs. Herman Huebner, Carroll, Mrs. Bernard Arkabaur, St. Louis, and Wilhelmina (Mrs. Herman) Renken, Manson, and one half-brother, Carl Wenzel, Ft. Dodge.

Three sisters preceded him in death. They were: Martha (Mrs. John) Asmus, Mathilda (Mrs. Ed) Schultz, and Emma (Mrs. John) Schade.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, May 18, 1943

Siegfried Wenzel
Funeral services were held at the Ohde Funeral home at 2 p. m. Thursday for Siegfried Wenzel, 61, who died Monday morning at his home five miles north of Manilla. He had been in ill health for some time and seriously ill the last two weeks. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Israel of the Manilla Lutheran Church and burial was in the Manning Cemetery.

He was born on a farm near Manilla and had lived on the same farm for the last 33 years. He had been a farmer all his life. Thirty-five years ago he was married to Miss Amanda Kai, who survives, together with two children, Mrs. Howard Saunders and Henry Wenzel, and one grandchild; also surviving are his step-mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Wenzel of Fort Dodge: two sisters, Mrs. Fred Rutz and Mrs. Jacob Fielweber, both of Manning; two brothers, Helmuth Wenzel of Manilla and Ben Wenzel of Manning: four half-sisters, Mrs. Harold Brown of Chicago, Mrs. Herman Huebner of Carroll, Mrs. Bernard Arkabauer of St. Louis, and Mrs. Herman Renken of Manson; a half-brother, Carl Wenzel of Ft. Dodge.
Daily Nonpareil, May 5, 1943