EVERIST GRASSER: 1917 - 1984
Everist Herman Guido Grasser was born March 1, 1917 near Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin to his parents Michael and Wilhelmina Grasser. By being born into a Catholic family, he was dutifully baptized about two months later on May 27, 1917 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Walsh, Wisconsin. He was the youngest of nine children that were raised by his parents.
As a young boy, he attended a little country school which was situated down the road from his father's farm. He continued his education after elementary school by enrolling at the Marinette County Teachers College in Marinette. This teachers college was housed in the Stephenson's Training School building at Williams Street and Park Ridge Street (The building was razed in July of 1985). This school offered three basic courses one being the Teacher's course, another being an Agricultural course, and finally a Home Economics' course. Because of his father's need of him on the farm, he couldn't attend school continuously. But he persisted and graduated about the year 1937.
Shortly thereafter he took a job in the town of Antigo as a salesman selling "Hawaiian Tremola's" which was a string instrument that simulated the tremolo of Hawaiian music. He had to learn how to play this instrument in order to sell it, but this was no problemfor Everist was musically inclined. During his high school days he was a part of a singing quartet. He also could play the mouth organ and zither.
On May 2, 1938 while selling these instruments in the area of the town of Polar, Everist came to the Rudolph Schmidt dairy farm. Rudolph's wife, Regina Marie, invited Everist to come back to dinner that night in order to play the instrument for the entire family. He did thereby meeting Rudolph's daughter, Nina, for the first time. That night he was successful in selling one instrument to the Schmidt family and also in beginning a lasting relationship with Rudoph's daughter, Nina.
About the year 1939, he quit his salesman job in Antigo and moved to the big city of Chicago. He secured a job as an automobile mechanic in a garage owned by Al Ornis who was related to his brother-in-law, Sig Johnson. He worked there a couple of years when one fateful day while working on a car's gas tank, sparks from his drill that he was using ignited the gasoline. A fire ensued causing considerable damage to the interior of the garage and to the other cars therein. Everist, in trying to salvage some of the cars in the garage, received facial and hand burns which resulted in him being hospitalized for a short time.
He quit his mechanic's job shortly after the fire and returned home to his parent's farm near Porterfield, Wisconsin. On December 19th, 1941 Everist closed a deal with his father to purchase the farm and to assume all of the outstanding debts on it, thus starting his career in the dairy farming business.
Four months later, he married the twenty five year old Nina Schmidt on April 10, 1942 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Antigo, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Chicago, they returned home and settled into the daily routine of dairy farming of which they actively pursued for the next twenty five years.
Everist was a progressive farmer and tried to mechanize his farming operation right from the start. He eliminated the plow horses that his father used and bought a tractor. He even instituted automatic milking machines for his cows in order to keep the sanitation levels high. Over the years, he turned his father's old farm into a modern and efficiently run business.
During the time that he actively farmed, Everist saw the need for a Fire Department for the Porterfield area in order to protect human life and real property from the tragic destruction of fire. He helped to organize the first Volunteer Fire Department of Porterfield of which he served as treasurer for many years.
Also during this time, his wife, Nina, started a beauty shop in their farmhouse called the "Grasser's Countryside Beauty Salon" of which she operated for many years.
On June 11, 1966 they decided to retire from the dairy farming business by selling off all of their livestock and auctioning off all of their farm equipment. The only thing that they kept was the original eighty six acre "Grasser" homestead.
Over the next five years, Everist sold farm machinery, first with the Jacobsen Implement Company of Porterfield, Wisconsin; next with the Tesch Brothers of Seymour, Wisconsin; and finally with the Allis Chalmers dealer in Marinett, Wisconsin.
In 1971 Everist bought the AMC car dealership and garage in Porterfield which he operated for the next thirteen years.
Everist suffered his first heart attack in 1979. His doctors recommended by-pass surgery which he underwent in 1981. Unfortunately this surgery wasn't a complete success, and he had to undergo a second by-pass operation about two years later of which he vainly tried to recover from for almost ten months afterward. Nearing the end, Everist converted to Lutheranism on January 15, 1984 by joining the St. James Lutheran Church of Marinette, Wisconsin. Five days later, Everist died at the Menominee County Lloyd Hospital in Menominee, Michigan. He was sixty six years old. He was buried in Glenwood Memorial Gardens located near Marinette, Wisconsin.
During the fall of 1986 the Grasser cousins persuaded, Nina, to open the farm to a gala family reunion. Relatives from all across the country came to see each other and the old homestead once again. Everyone and especially, Nina, had a great time.
Because of cancer, Nina's health was deteriorating. She needed help to keep up the farm. Her brother-in-law, Cyrill Grasser, came forward and bought the "Grasser Farm" from her and placed it in an irrevocable trust granting her the right to live on the farm the rest of her life and to operate it as her own.
In 1994, the Grasser cousins were planning a second reunion on the farm. This time it would be a birthday celebration commemorating the 90th year of Cyrill Grasser's life, the patriarch of our family. Two months before the reunion was to happen, Nina's heath worsened. Dying on June 14th, 1994 she was laid to rest next to her husband, Everist, at Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Everist Grasser Biography
Copyrighted © 2014 by Allen P. Grasser
EVERIST GRASSER
Everist H. Grasser, 66, of Route 2, Box 199, Marinette, died Tuesday afternoon at Menominee County Llyod Hospital. Mr. Grasser was born March 1, 1917, in the Town of Porterfield. He spent his early life there and graduated from the former Marinette County Teachers College. He later lived in Chicago for several years and worked in a garage there. Mr. Grasser returned to Porterfield in 1941 and worked for the Jacobsen Implement Co. In 1971, he purchased the Porterfield Garage which he owned and operated at the time of his death. He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and a former member of the Porterfield Grange. He started the Porterfield Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Grasser married the former Nina Schmidt April 10, 1942, in Antigo. She survives with a brother, Cyrill of Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. Erna Waldau of Kaukauna, Mrs. Sylvia Kearney of Mass., and Mrs. Leona Pouliot of North Chelmsford, Mass. Three brothers and a sister died previously. Friends may call at the Thielen Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and at the church Friday from noon until 2 p.m. when services will be held there. The Rev. Karl Danielson will officiate. Burial will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens.
"Marinette-Eagle Star" Newspaper - Marinette, Wisconsin - Wednesday, January 18, 1984
Everist Herman Guido Grasser was born March 1, 1917 near Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin to his parents Michael and Wilhelmina Grasser. By being born into a Catholic family, he was dutifully baptized about two months later on May 27, 1917 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Walsh, Wisconsin. He was the youngest of nine children that were raised by his parents.
As a young boy, he attended a little country school which was situated down the road from his father's farm. He continued his education after elementary school by enrolling at the Marinette County Teachers College in Marinette. This teachers college was housed in the Stephenson's Training School building at Williams Street and Park Ridge Street (The building was razed in July of 1985). This school offered three basic courses one being the Teacher's course, another being an Agricultural course, and finally a Home Economics' course. Because of his father's need of him on the farm, he couldn't attend school continuously. But he persisted and graduated about the year 1937.
Shortly thereafter he took a job in the town of Antigo as a salesman selling "Hawaiian Tremola's" which was a string instrument that simulated the tremolo of Hawaiian music. He had to learn how to play this instrument in order to sell it, but this was no problemfor Everist was musically inclined. During his high school days he was a part of a singing quartet. He also could play the mouth organ and zither.
On May 2, 1938 while selling these instruments in the area of the town of Polar, Everist came to the Rudolph Schmidt dairy farm. Rudolph's wife, Regina Marie, invited Everist to come back to dinner that night in order to play the instrument for the entire family. He did thereby meeting Rudolph's daughter, Nina, for the first time. That night he was successful in selling one instrument to the Schmidt family and also in beginning a lasting relationship with Rudoph's daughter, Nina.
About the year 1939, he quit his salesman job in Antigo and moved to the big city of Chicago. He secured a job as an automobile mechanic in a garage owned by Al Ornis who was related to his brother-in-law, Sig Johnson. He worked there a couple of years when one fateful day while working on a car's gas tank, sparks from his drill that he was using ignited the gasoline. A fire ensued causing considerable damage to the interior of the garage and to the other cars therein. Everist, in trying to salvage some of the cars in the garage, received facial and hand burns which resulted in him being hospitalized for a short time.
He quit his mechanic's job shortly after the fire and returned home to his parent's farm near Porterfield, Wisconsin. On December 19th, 1941 Everist closed a deal with his father to purchase the farm and to assume all of the outstanding debts on it, thus starting his career in the dairy farming business.
Four months later, he married the twenty five year old Nina Schmidt on April 10, 1942 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Antigo, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Chicago, they returned home and settled into the daily routine of dairy farming of which they actively pursued for the next twenty five years.
Everist was a progressive farmer and tried to mechanize his farming operation right from the start. He eliminated the plow horses that his father used and bought a tractor. He even instituted automatic milking machines for his cows in order to keep the sanitation levels high. Over the years, he turned his father's old farm into a modern and efficiently run business.
During the time that he actively farmed, Everist saw the need for a Fire Department for the Porterfield area in order to protect human life and real property from the tragic destruction of fire. He helped to organize the first Volunteer Fire Department of Porterfield of which he served as treasurer for many years.
Also during this time, his wife, Nina, started a beauty shop in their farmhouse called the "Grasser's Countryside Beauty Salon" of which she operated for many years.
On June 11, 1966 they decided to retire from the dairy farming business by selling off all of their livestock and auctioning off all of their farm equipment. The only thing that they kept was the original eighty six acre "Grasser" homestead.
Over the next five years, Everist sold farm machinery, first with the Jacobsen Implement Company of Porterfield, Wisconsin; next with the Tesch Brothers of Seymour, Wisconsin; and finally with the Allis Chalmers dealer in Marinett, Wisconsin.
In 1971 Everist bought the AMC car dealership and garage in Porterfield which he operated for the next thirteen years.
Everist suffered his first heart attack in 1979. His doctors recommended by-pass surgery which he underwent in 1981. Unfortunately this surgery wasn't a complete success, and he had to undergo a second by-pass operation about two years later of which he vainly tried to recover from for almost ten months afterward. Nearing the end, Everist converted to Lutheranism on January 15, 1984 by joining the St. James Lutheran Church of Marinette, Wisconsin. Five days later, Everist died at the Menominee County Lloyd Hospital in Menominee, Michigan. He was sixty six years old. He was buried in Glenwood Memorial Gardens located near Marinette, Wisconsin.
During the fall of 1986 the Grasser cousins persuaded, Nina, to open the farm to a gala family reunion. Relatives from all across the country came to see each other and the old homestead once again. Everyone and especially, Nina, had a great time.
Because of cancer, Nina's health was deteriorating. She needed help to keep up the farm. Her brother-in-law, Cyrill Grasser, came forward and bought the "Grasser Farm" from her and placed it in an irrevocable trust granting her the right to live on the farm the rest of her life and to operate it as her own.
In 1994, the Grasser cousins were planning a second reunion on the farm. This time it would be a birthday celebration commemorating the 90th year of Cyrill Grasser's life, the patriarch of our family. Two months before the reunion was to happen, Nina's heath worsened. Dying on June 14th, 1994 she was laid to rest next to her husband, Everist, at Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Everist Grasser Biography
Copyrighted © 2014 by Allen P. Grasser
EVERIST GRASSER
Everist H. Grasser, 66, of Route 2, Box 199, Marinette, died Tuesday afternoon at Menominee County Llyod Hospital. Mr. Grasser was born March 1, 1917, in the Town of Porterfield. He spent his early life there and graduated from the former Marinette County Teachers College. He later lived in Chicago for several years and worked in a garage there. Mr. Grasser returned to Porterfield in 1941 and worked for the Jacobsen Implement Co. In 1971, he purchased the Porterfield Garage which he owned and operated at the time of his death. He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and a former member of the Porterfield Grange. He started the Porterfield Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Grasser married the former Nina Schmidt April 10, 1942, in Antigo. She survives with a brother, Cyrill of Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. Erna Waldau of Kaukauna, Mrs. Sylvia Kearney of Mass., and Mrs. Leona Pouliot of North Chelmsford, Mass. Three brothers and a sister died previously. Friends may call at the Thielen Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and at the church Friday from noon until 2 p.m. when services will be held there. The Rev. Karl Danielson will officiate. Burial will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens.
"Marinette-Eagle Star" Newspaper - Marinette, Wisconsin - Wednesday, January 18, 1984
EVERIST GRASSER: 1917 - 1984
Everist Herman Guido Grasser was born March 1, 1917 near Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin to his parents Michael and Wilhelmina Grasser. By being born into a Catholic family, he was dutifully baptized about two months later on May 27, 1917 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Walsh, Wisconsin. He was the youngest of nine children that were raised by his parents.
As a young boy, he attended a little country school which was situated down the road from his father's farm. He continued his education after elementary school by enrolling at the Marinette County Teachers College in Marinette. This teachers college was housed in the Stephenson's Training School building at Williams Street and Park Ridge Street (The building was razed in July of 1985). This school offered three basic courses one being the Teacher's course, another being an Agricultural course, and finally a Home Economics' course. Because of his father's need of him on the farm, he couldn't attend school continuously. But he persisted and graduated about the year 1937.
Shortly thereafter he took a job in the town of Antigo as a salesman selling "Hawaiian Tremola's" which was a string instrument that simulated the tremolo of Hawaiian music. He had to learn how to play this instrument in order to sell it, but this was no problemfor Everist was musically inclined. During his high school days he was a part of a singing quartet. He also could play the mouth organ and zither.
On May 2, 1938 while selling these instruments in the area of the town of Polar, Everist came to the Rudolph Schmidt dairy farm. Rudolph's wife, Regina Marie, invited Everist to come back to dinner that night in order to play the instrument for the entire family. He did thereby meeting Rudolph's daughter, Nina, for the first time. That night he was successful in selling one instrument to the Schmidt family and also in beginning a lasting relationship with Rudoph's daughter, Nina.
About the year 1939, he quit his salesman job in Antigo and moved to the big city of Chicago. He secured a job as an automobile mechanic in a garage owned by Al Ornis who was related to his brother-in-law, Sig Johnson. He worked there a couple of years when one fateful day while working on a car's gas tank, sparks from his drill that he was using ignited the gasoline. A fire ensued causing considerable damage to the interior of the garage and to the other cars therein. Everist, in trying to salvage some of the cars in the garage, received facial and hand burns which resulted in him being hospitalized for a short time.
He quit his mechanic's job shortly after the fire and returned home to his parent's farm near Porterfield, Wisconsin. On December 19th, 1941 Everist closed a deal with his father to purchase the farm and to assume all of the outstanding debts on it, thus starting his career in the dairy farming business.
Four months later, he married the twenty five year old Nina Schmidt on April 10, 1942 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Antigo, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Chicago, they returned home and settled into the daily routine of dairy farming of which they actively pursued for the next twenty five years.
Everist was a progressive farmer and tried to mechanize his farming operation right from the start. He eliminated the plow horses that his father used and bought a tractor. He even instituted automatic milking machines for his cows in order to keep the sanitation levels high. Over the years, he turned his father's old farm into a modern and efficiently run business.
During the time that he actively farmed, Everist saw the need for a Fire Department for the Porterfield area in order to protect human life and real property from the tragic destruction of fire. He helped to organize the first Volunteer Fire Department of Porterfield of which he served as treasurer for many years.
Also during this time, his wife, Nina, started a beauty shop in their farmhouse called the "Grasser's Countryside Beauty Salon" of which she operated for many years.
On June 11, 1966 they decided to retire from the dairy farming business by selling off all of their livestock and auctioning off all of their farm equipment. The only thing that they kept was the original eighty six acre "Grasser" homestead.
Over the next five years, Everist sold farm machinery, first with the Jacobsen Implement Company of Porterfield, Wisconsin; next with the Tesch Brothers of Seymour, Wisconsin; and finally with the Allis Chalmers dealer in Marinett, Wisconsin.
In 1971 Everist bought the AMC car dealership and garage in Porterfield which he operated for the next thirteen years.
Everist suffered his first heart attack in 1979. His doctors recommended by-pass surgery which he underwent in 1981. Unfortunately this surgery wasn't a complete success, and he had to undergo a second by-pass operation about two years later of which he vainly tried to recover from for almost ten months afterward. Nearing the end, Everist converted to Lutheranism on January 15, 1984 by joining the St. James Lutheran Church of Marinette, Wisconsin. Five days later, Everist died at the Menominee County Lloyd Hospital in Menominee, Michigan. He was sixty six years old. He was buried in Glenwood Memorial Gardens located near Marinette, Wisconsin.
During the fall of 1986 the Grasser cousins persuaded, Nina, to open the farm to a gala family reunion. Relatives from all across the country came to see each other and the old homestead once again. Everyone and especially, Nina, had a great time.
Because of cancer, Nina's health was deteriorating. She needed help to keep up the farm. Her brother-in-law, Cyrill Grasser, came forward and bought the "Grasser Farm" from her and placed it in an irrevocable trust granting her the right to live on the farm the rest of her life and to operate it as her own.
In 1994, the Grasser cousins were planning a second reunion on the farm. This time it would be a birthday celebration commemorating the 90th year of Cyrill Grasser's life, the patriarch of our family. Two months before the reunion was to happen, Nina's heath worsened. Dying on June 14th, 1994 she was laid to rest next to her husband, Everist, at Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Everist Grasser Biography
Copyrighted © 2014 by Allen P. Grasser
EVERIST GRASSER
Everist H. Grasser, 66, of Route 2, Box 199, Marinette, died Tuesday afternoon at Menominee County Llyod Hospital. Mr. Grasser was born March 1, 1917, in the Town of Porterfield. He spent his early life there and graduated from the former Marinette County Teachers College. He later lived in Chicago for several years and worked in a garage there. Mr. Grasser returned to Porterfield in 1941 and worked for the Jacobsen Implement Co. In 1971, he purchased the Porterfield Garage which he owned and operated at the time of his death. He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and a former member of the Porterfield Grange. He started the Porterfield Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Grasser married the former Nina Schmidt April 10, 1942, in Antigo. She survives with a brother, Cyrill of Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. Erna Waldau of Kaukauna, Mrs. Sylvia Kearney of Mass., and Mrs. Leona Pouliot of North Chelmsford, Mass. Three brothers and a sister died previously. Friends may call at the Thielen Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and at the church Friday from noon until 2 p.m. when services will be held there. The Rev. Karl Danielson will officiate. Burial will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens.
"Marinette-Eagle Star" Newspaper - Marinette, Wisconsin - Wednesday, January 18, 1984
Everist Herman Guido Grasser was born March 1, 1917 near Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin to his parents Michael and Wilhelmina Grasser. By being born into a Catholic family, he was dutifully baptized about two months later on May 27, 1917 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Walsh, Wisconsin. He was the youngest of nine children that were raised by his parents.
As a young boy, he attended a little country school which was situated down the road from his father's farm. He continued his education after elementary school by enrolling at the Marinette County Teachers College in Marinette. This teachers college was housed in the Stephenson's Training School building at Williams Street and Park Ridge Street (The building was razed in July of 1985). This school offered three basic courses one being the Teacher's course, another being an Agricultural course, and finally a Home Economics' course. Because of his father's need of him on the farm, he couldn't attend school continuously. But he persisted and graduated about the year 1937.
Shortly thereafter he took a job in the town of Antigo as a salesman selling "Hawaiian Tremola's" which was a string instrument that simulated the tremolo of Hawaiian music. He had to learn how to play this instrument in order to sell it, but this was no problemfor Everist was musically inclined. During his high school days he was a part of a singing quartet. He also could play the mouth organ and zither.
On May 2, 1938 while selling these instruments in the area of the town of Polar, Everist came to the Rudolph Schmidt dairy farm. Rudolph's wife, Regina Marie, invited Everist to come back to dinner that night in order to play the instrument for the entire family. He did thereby meeting Rudolph's daughter, Nina, for the first time. That night he was successful in selling one instrument to the Schmidt family and also in beginning a lasting relationship with Rudoph's daughter, Nina.
About the year 1939, he quit his salesman job in Antigo and moved to the big city of Chicago. He secured a job as an automobile mechanic in a garage owned by Al Ornis who was related to his brother-in-law, Sig Johnson. He worked there a couple of years when one fateful day while working on a car's gas tank, sparks from his drill that he was using ignited the gasoline. A fire ensued causing considerable damage to the interior of the garage and to the other cars therein. Everist, in trying to salvage some of the cars in the garage, received facial and hand burns which resulted in him being hospitalized for a short time.
He quit his mechanic's job shortly after the fire and returned home to his parent's farm near Porterfield, Wisconsin. On December 19th, 1941 Everist closed a deal with his father to purchase the farm and to assume all of the outstanding debts on it, thus starting his career in the dairy farming business.
Four months later, he married the twenty five year old Nina Schmidt on April 10, 1942 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Antigo, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Chicago, they returned home and settled into the daily routine of dairy farming of which they actively pursued for the next twenty five years.
Everist was a progressive farmer and tried to mechanize his farming operation right from the start. He eliminated the plow horses that his father used and bought a tractor. He even instituted automatic milking machines for his cows in order to keep the sanitation levels high. Over the years, he turned his father's old farm into a modern and efficiently run business.
During the time that he actively farmed, Everist saw the need for a Fire Department for the Porterfield area in order to protect human life and real property from the tragic destruction of fire. He helped to organize the first Volunteer Fire Department of Porterfield of which he served as treasurer for many years.
Also during this time, his wife, Nina, started a beauty shop in their farmhouse called the "Grasser's Countryside Beauty Salon" of which she operated for many years.
On June 11, 1966 they decided to retire from the dairy farming business by selling off all of their livestock and auctioning off all of their farm equipment. The only thing that they kept was the original eighty six acre "Grasser" homestead.
Over the next five years, Everist sold farm machinery, first with the Jacobsen Implement Company of Porterfield, Wisconsin; next with the Tesch Brothers of Seymour, Wisconsin; and finally with the Allis Chalmers dealer in Marinett, Wisconsin.
In 1971 Everist bought the AMC car dealership and garage in Porterfield which he operated for the next thirteen years.
Everist suffered his first heart attack in 1979. His doctors recommended by-pass surgery which he underwent in 1981. Unfortunately this surgery wasn't a complete success, and he had to undergo a second by-pass operation about two years later of which he vainly tried to recover from for almost ten months afterward. Nearing the end, Everist converted to Lutheranism on January 15, 1984 by joining the St. James Lutheran Church of Marinette, Wisconsin. Five days later, Everist died at the Menominee County Lloyd Hospital in Menominee, Michigan. He was sixty six years old. He was buried in Glenwood Memorial Gardens located near Marinette, Wisconsin.
During the fall of 1986 the Grasser cousins persuaded, Nina, to open the farm to a gala family reunion. Relatives from all across the country came to see each other and the old homestead once again. Everyone and especially, Nina, had a great time.
Because of cancer, Nina's health was deteriorating. She needed help to keep up the farm. Her brother-in-law, Cyrill Grasser, came forward and bought the "Grasser Farm" from her and placed it in an irrevocable trust granting her the right to live on the farm the rest of her life and to operate it as her own.
In 1994, the Grasser cousins were planning a second reunion on the farm. This time it would be a birthday celebration commemorating the 90th year of Cyrill Grasser's life, the patriarch of our family. Two months before the reunion was to happen, Nina's heath worsened. Dying on June 14th, 1994 she was laid to rest next to her husband, Everist, at Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Everist Grasser Biography
Copyrighted © 2014 by Allen P. Grasser
EVERIST GRASSER
Everist H. Grasser, 66, of Route 2, Box 199, Marinette, died Tuesday afternoon at Menominee County Llyod Hospital. Mr. Grasser was born March 1, 1917, in the Town of Porterfield. He spent his early life there and graduated from the former Marinette County Teachers College. He later lived in Chicago for several years and worked in a garage there. Mr. Grasser returned to Porterfield in 1941 and worked for the Jacobsen Implement Co. In 1971, he purchased the Porterfield Garage which he owned and operated at the time of his death. He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and a former member of the Porterfield Grange. He started the Porterfield Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Grasser married the former Nina Schmidt April 10, 1942, in Antigo. She survives with a brother, Cyrill of Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. Erna Waldau of Kaukauna, Mrs. Sylvia Kearney of Mass., and Mrs. Leona Pouliot of North Chelmsford, Mass. Three brothers and a sister died previously. Friends may call at the Thielen Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and at the church Friday from noon until 2 p.m. when services will be held there. The Rev. Karl Danielson will officiate. Burial will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens.
"Marinette-Eagle Star" Newspaper - Marinette, Wisconsin - Wednesday, January 18, 1984
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