5/20/1960 Appleton Post Crescent page A20
Samuel F. Wilch, Active Church Layman, Dies
Samuel F. Wilch, 66, of 2300 N. Clark street, died unexpectedly at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. He was born in Bluffton, Ohio, April 20, 1894, and lived in Appleton the last 28 years. He was an agent for the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance company. In his younger years, he taught in a parochial school. He had been on the council of Trinity Lutheran church, and was a delegate to the National convention of the United Lutheran Church in America in 1956 and 1958. Just this week he was chosen by the ULCA Northwest synod as a delegate to the 1960 convention. He had been president of the Northwest synod brotherhood and for a time was a full-time employee of the synod brotherhood.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran church, with burial in Highland Memorial park cemetery. Friends may call at Wichmann Funeral home from 3 p.m. Sunday until 9:30 a.m. Monday and then at the church.
Surviving are the widow; three sons, the Rev. Robert Wilch, Jamesville, the Rev. James Wilch, Waukesha, and Dennis Wilch, Appleton; three brothers, Marion, Finlay, Ohio, Emmanuel, Jenera, Ohio, and Herman, Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Orville Frantz, Rawson, Ohio, and Mrs. Stanley Wiedman, Bluffton, Ohio; and seven grandchildren."
Samuel F. Wilch, Active Church Layman, Dies
Samuel F. Wilch, 66, of 2300 N. Clark street, died unexpectedly at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. He was born in Bluffton, Ohio, April 20, 1894, and lived in Appleton the last 28 years. He was an agent for the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance company. In his younger years, he taught in a parochial school. He had been on the council of Trinity Lutheran church, and was a delegate to the National convention of the United Lutheran Church in America in 1956 and 1958. Just this week he was chosen by the ULCA Northwest synod as a delegate to the 1960 convention. He had been president of the Northwest synod brotherhood and for a time was a full-time employee of the synod brotherhood.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran church, with burial in Highland Memorial park cemetery. Friends may call at Wichmann Funeral home from 3 p.m. Sunday until 9:30 a.m. Monday and then at the church.
Surviving are the widow; three sons, the Rev. Robert Wilch, Jamesville, the Rev. James Wilch, Waukesha, and Dennis Wilch, Appleton; three brothers, Marion, Finlay, Ohio, Emmanuel, Jenera, Ohio, and Herman, Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Orville Frantz, Rawson, Ohio, and Mrs. Stanley Wiedman, Bluffton, Ohio; and seven grandchildren."
5/20/1960 Appleton Post Crescent page A20
Samuel F. Wilch, Active Church Layman, Dies
Samuel F. Wilch, 66, of 2300 N. Clark street, died unexpectedly at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. He was born in Bluffton, Ohio, April 20, 1894, and lived in Appleton the last 28 years. He was an agent for the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance company. In his younger years, he taught in a parochial school. He had been on the council of Trinity Lutheran church, and was a delegate to the National convention of the United Lutheran Church in America in 1956 and 1958. Just this week he was chosen by the ULCA Northwest synod as a delegate to the 1960 convention. He had been president of the Northwest synod brotherhood and for a time was a full-time employee of the synod brotherhood.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran church, with burial in Highland Memorial park cemetery. Friends may call at Wichmann Funeral home from 3 p.m. Sunday until 9:30 a.m. Monday and then at the church.
Surviving are the widow; three sons, the Rev. Robert Wilch, Jamesville, the Rev. James Wilch, Waukesha, and Dennis Wilch, Appleton; three brothers, Marion, Finlay, Ohio, Emmanuel, Jenera, Ohio, and Herman, Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Orville Frantz, Rawson, Ohio, and Mrs. Stanley Wiedman, Bluffton, Ohio; and seven grandchildren."
Samuel F. Wilch, Active Church Layman, Dies
Samuel F. Wilch, 66, of 2300 N. Clark street, died unexpectedly at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. He was born in Bluffton, Ohio, April 20, 1894, and lived in Appleton the last 28 years. He was an agent for the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance company. In his younger years, he taught in a parochial school. He had been on the council of Trinity Lutheran church, and was a delegate to the National convention of the United Lutheran Church in America in 1956 and 1958. Just this week he was chosen by the ULCA Northwest synod as a delegate to the 1960 convention. He had been president of the Northwest synod brotherhood and for a time was a full-time employee of the synod brotherhood.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran church, with burial in Highland Memorial park cemetery. Friends may call at Wichmann Funeral home from 3 p.m. Sunday until 9:30 a.m. Monday and then at the church.
Surviving are the widow; three sons, the Rev. Robert Wilch, Jamesville, the Rev. James Wilch, Waukesha, and Dennis Wilch, Appleton; three brothers, Marion, Finlay, Ohio, Emmanuel, Jenera, Ohio, and Herman, Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Orville Frantz, Rawson, Ohio, and Mrs. Stanley Wiedman, Bluffton, Ohio; and seven grandchildren."
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