KINGSLEY D. SEARS

Kingsley D. Sears, 71, of 1218 No. 11th St., Manitowoc, retired Mirro Aluminum
Co. factory personnel superintendent, died Thursday at Memorial Hospital,
Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Urbanek and Schlei Funeral
Home, Manitowoc. The Rev. Edmund Olson will officiate and burial will be in
Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mr. Sears was born Dec. 12, 1896, at Milwaukee, son of the late Charles S. and
Gertrude Connell Sears. He attended Oshkosh State Teachers College and came to
Manitowoc in 1925. He was a salesman for the Snider Catsup Co., the Plumb and
Nelson Co., of Manitowoc, and retired in 1962 after 37 years of employment with
the Mirro firm.
Active in athletics, Sears was chosen head of the Manitowoc Braves baseball team
of the Northern State league during the 1947 season. He had been an umpire for
years in the semi-pro league in the state and also served on the team’s board of
directors. He was president of the Greater Wisconsin Bowling Assn. in its first
year of existence and was elected to an honorary life membership by the association
in 1932.
Sears was a deputy sheriff for a quarter of a century and had been a chief deputy.
He was a veteran of World War I, and besides his membership in the Deputy Sheriff’s
Assn., belonged to the Drews-Bleser American Legion Post, Seagulls, and the Sheboygan
and Wisconsin Oldtimers Baseball associations.
He married Selma Pederson Nov. 25, 1939, at Manitowoc where the couple established
residence.
Survivors include the wife; two brothers, Donald of Sturgeon Bay and Charles of
Racine; a niece and nephews.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Friday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, September 19, 1968 P. 26