Walter F. Olm, 75, died Thursday evening at his home at Collins.He had been in ill health since February.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Peter LutheranChurch in the Town of Eaton, the Rev. Philip Press officiating.Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mr. Olm was born Sept. 20, 1886, in the Town of Meeme, son of thelate Herman and Laura Wirth Olm. On Oct. 31, 1912, he married Lillian Vallesky at St. Peter Lutheran Church, in the Town of Eaton. The couple operated a cheese factory in the Town of Hobart, Brown County until 1916 when they moved to a cheese factory west of St. Nazianz. Later Mr. Olm worked for Pauly and Pauly Cheese Co. at Manitowoc. Fourteen years ago the Olms moved to their present home at Collins. Mr. Olm was a former supervisor of the Town of Rockland, director of Rockland Telephone Co., member of St. Peter Lutheran Church Council and until his illness was on the cemetery committee ofhis church.

Survivors include his wife; four daughters, Mrs. Ernest Sy of Valders, Mrs. Harvey Ruh of Kiel, Mrs. Wallace Prausa and Mrs. Jack Youngchild at Manitowoc; two sons, Karl of Brillion and Kenneth of Kiel; five sisters, Mrs. Henry Draheim of the Town of Eaton, Mrs. Emil Waak and Mrs. Alois Drill of Manitowoc, Mrs. Otto Pautz of Plymouth and Mrs. Carl Brick of Brillion; three brothers, Herman of Brillion, Oscar of Plymouth and Jonathan of Reedsville; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A daughter, Ruth, preceded him in death in 1940.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday at Schwartz Funeral Home, Morrison, until Sunday noon when the casket will be moved to the church where the body will be in state until the hour of service.

Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, August 24, 1962 p.15