Siegfried Feller, 83, of 8 Amherst Road, Pelham, retired associate director for collection development and chief bibliographer of the University of Massachusetts Libraries, died Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation in Hadley.
Born Jan. 15, 1926, to Rose Marie Vahle and Hermann Otto Feller, in Essen, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1928 and grew up in Michigan. He held bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in library administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A World War II veteran who received the Bronze Star and Good Conduct medals, he served as a U.S. Army radio operator in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns and participated in the occupation of Berlin from 1944-46.
He was a member of the 69th Infantry Division, the first to meet the Russians at Torgau just two weeks before the end of the war in Europe.
In 1961, he married Karen Wynnell Bartok. She died in 2005.
An artisan in the 1950s, he made wood and metal jewelry and pottery. Also in the '50s, he managed Bob Marshall's Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Creative Bookmen in Riverside, Calif., and he traveled for two years representing A.A. Lampl Art Books, an importer based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
He was an acquisitions librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1960-61, and chief acquisitions librarian at the University of Oklahoma from 1961-63 and at the University of Minnesota from 1964-67. After serving the University of Massachusetts from 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he returned to the Libraries as a part-time acquisitions specialist for another four years.
In addition to being an honorary member of the German Librarian's Association, he was a longtime member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries and its Western European Specialists section.
In 1998, the Friends of the University of Massachusetts Library, an organization that he founded, created the Siegfried Feller Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. He was named as its first recipient.
A collector of stamps, postcards and map memorabilia, he donated 10,000 map postcards to Harvard's Map Library in 2007, with which the library put on a special exhibition.
He is survived by a brother, William Krause of Graham, Wash.; two sons, Geoffrey Feller of Minneapolis, and Bart Rankin of Greenfield; two grandchildren; and a cousin, Sieglinde Isham of Roseville, Calif. In addition to his wife, his brother Alfred Krause preceded him in death.
A memorial gathering is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst MA 01003.
Born Jan. 15, 1926, to Rose Marie Vahle and Hermann Otto Feller, in Essen, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1928 and grew up in Michigan. He held bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in library administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A World War II veteran who received the Bronze Star and Good Conduct medals, he served as a U.S. Army radio operator in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns and participated in the occupation of Berlin from 1944-46.
He was a member of the 69th Infantry Division, the first to meet the Russians at Torgau just two weeks before the end of the war in Europe.
In 1961, he married Karen Wynnell Bartok. She died in 2005.
An artisan in the 1950s, he made wood and metal jewelry and pottery. Also in the '50s, he managed Bob Marshall's Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Creative Bookmen in Riverside, Calif., and he traveled for two years representing A.A. Lampl Art Books, an importer based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
He was an acquisitions librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1960-61, and chief acquisitions librarian at the University of Oklahoma from 1961-63 and at the University of Minnesota from 1964-67. After serving the University of Massachusetts from 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he returned to the Libraries as a part-time acquisitions specialist for another four years.
In addition to being an honorary member of the German Librarian's Association, he was a longtime member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries and its Western European Specialists section.
In 1998, the Friends of the University of Massachusetts Library, an organization that he founded, created the Siegfried Feller Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. He was named as its first recipient.
A collector of stamps, postcards and map memorabilia, he donated 10,000 map postcards to Harvard's Map Library in 2007, with which the library put on a special exhibition.
He is survived by a brother, William Krause of Graham, Wash.; two sons, Geoffrey Feller of Minneapolis, and Bart Rankin of Greenfield; two grandchildren; and a cousin, Sieglinde Isham of Roseville, Calif. In addition to his wife, his brother Alfred Krause preceded him in death.
A memorial gathering is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst MA 01003.
Siegfried Feller, 83, of 8 Amherst Road, Pelham, retired associate director for collection development and chief bibliographer of the University of Massachusetts Libraries, died Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation in Hadley.
Born Jan. 15, 1926, to Rose Marie Vahle and Hermann Otto Feller, in Essen, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1928 and grew up in Michigan. He held bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in library administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A World War II veteran who received the Bronze Star and Good Conduct medals, he served as a U.S. Army radio operator in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns and participated in the occupation of Berlin from 1944-46.
He was a member of the 69th Infantry Division, the first to meet the Russians at Torgau just two weeks before the end of the war in Europe.
In 1961, he married Karen Wynnell Bartok. She died in 2005.
An artisan in the 1950s, he made wood and metal jewelry and pottery. Also in the '50s, he managed Bob Marshall's Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Creative Bookmen in Riverside, Calif., and he traveled for two years representing A.A. Lampl Art Books, an importer based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
He was an acquisitions librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1960-61, and chief acquisitions librarian at the University of Oklahoma from 1961-63 and at the University of Minnesota from 1964-67. After serving the University of Massachusetts from 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he returned to the Libraries as a part-time acquisitions specialist for another four years.
In addition to being an honorary member of the German Librarian's Association, he was a longtime member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries and its Western European Specialists section.
In 1998, the Friends of the University of Massachusetts Library, an organization that he founded, created the Siegfried Feller Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. He was named as its first recipient.
A collector of stamps, postcards and map memorabilia, he donated 10,000 map postcards to Harvard's Map Library in 2007, with which the library put on a special exhibition.
He is survived by a brother, William Krause of Graham, Wash.; two sons, Geoffrey Feller of Minneapolis, and Bart Rankin of Greenfield; two grandchildren; and a cousin, Sieglinde Isham of Roseville, Calif. In addition to his wife, his brother Alfred Krause preceded him in death.
A memorial gathering is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst MA 01003.
Born Jan. 15, 1926, to Rose Marie Vahle and Hermann Otto Feller, in Essen, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1928 and grew up in Michigan. He held bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in library administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A World War II veteran who received the Bronze Star and Good Conduct medals, he served as a U.S. Army radio operator in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns and participated in the occupation of Berlin from 1944-46.
He was a member of the 69th Infantry Division, the first to meet the Russians at Torgau just two weeks before the end of the war in Europe.
In 1961, he married Karen Wynnell Bartok. She died in 2005.
An artisan in the 1950s, he made wood and metal jewelry and pottery. Also in the '50s, he managed Bob Marshall's Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Creative Bookmen in Riverside, Calif., and he traveled for two years representing A.A. Lampl Art Books, an importer based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
He was an acquisitions librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1960-61, and chief acquisitions librarian at the University of Oklahoma from 1961-63 and at the University of Minnesota from 1964-67. After serving the University of Massachusetts from 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he returned to the Libraries as a part-time acquisitions specialist for another four years.
In addition to being an honorary member of the German Librarian's Association, he was a longtime member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries and its Western European Specialists section.
In 1998, the Friends of the University of Massachusetts Library, an organization that he founded, created the Siegfried Feller Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. He was named as its first recipient.
A collector of stamps, postcards and map memorabilia, he donated 10,000 map postcards to Harvard's Map Library in 2007, with which the library put on a special exhibition.
He is survived by a brother, William Krause of Graham, Wash.; two sons, Geoffrey Feller of Minneapolis, and Bart Rankin of Greenfield; two grandchildren; and a cousin, Sieglinde Isham of Roseville, Calif. In addition to his wife, his brother Alfred Krause preceded him in death.
A memorial gathering is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst MA 01003.
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