CHARLES SPEERING

Charles Speering, 57??, of 1120 Philippen St., Manitowoc, died at noon Monday
at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, after a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the St. John Evangelical
and Reformed Church, Manitowoc, the Rev. Paul Blaufuss officiating. Masonic
graveside services will be held. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. Speering was born Oct. 27, 1899, in the Town of Grover, Marinette County,
son of the late Carl and Elizabeth Dieleno Speering. On Oct. 6, 1924, he
married Ellen North at Winona, Minn. The couple took up residence in Manitowoc
where Mr. Speering worked as a machinist at the Aluminum Goods Mfg. Co., and
later at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Inc. and Manitowoc Engineering Corp. More
recently he continued to live in Manitowoc but was employed at the General
Electric plant in Milwaukee. Due to his illness he was unable to work the past
few years. He was a member of the St. John Church and the church Brotherhood,
a member of the Masonic order, a 25 year member of the American Legion and a
member of the X-Ray Level Club of General Electric. He served as an infantryman
in World War I and was a deputy sheriff in Manitowoc during the team of Sheriff
Max Hiller.
Survivors include his wife; daughter, Muriel of Manitowoc; five brothers, William
and Gustave of Black River Falls, John of Shawano, Albert of Three Lakes and
Edward of Manitowoc; three sisters, Mrs. Elsie Laab and Mrs. Mary Olson of Black
River Falls and Mrs. Minnie Betz of Dallas, Wis., and a number of nieces and
nephews. His parents and two brothers preceded him in death.
Friends may call at the Frazier Mortuary, Manitowoc, after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, November 13, 1956 P.15
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[d. 11-12-1956/age 57 yrs./cause: acute coronary thrombosis]