Peter Faust, 34, of Route 2, Elkhart Lake, a farmer in the town of Rhine, died Tuesday afternoon at St. Nicholas Hospital after an illness of several years.
A son of Adam and Mary Dorn Faust, he was born March 22, 1920, in the town of Rhine, and attended Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic school at Kiel. His marriage to Seraphine Dickrell of the town of Russell was solemnized June 18, 1947, at St. Ann's Church at St. Anna by the Rev. C.P. Kern. Since their marriage, the couple was engaged in farming in the town of Rhine. Mrs. Faust was a member of St. George Catholic Church at Elkhart Lake, the Holy Name Society of the parish, and the St. Ann branch of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. Survivors are the wife; a daughter, Joan, 5, and a son, Paul, 3; his parents; seven sisters, Sister Phyllis of Dickeyville, Wis., Sister Georgene of Milwaukee, Mrs. Elizabeth Melger of Town New Holstein, Miss Gertrude Faust, Town Rhine, and the Misses Margaret and Jane Faust, West Bend, and six brothers, Joseph and Alphonse, Town Rhine,Alvis and Leo, of Kiel, Benedict, of Plymouth, and Leo, of New Holstein. Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Friday at the Meiselwitz Funeral home, Kiel, and at 10 a.m. with a solemn requiem high mass at St. George Church at Elkhart Lake. The Rev. John Goebel, pastor, will be the celebrant. Burial will be in St. Ann's cemetery at St. Anna. The body will lie in state at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. Parishioners of St. George Catholic Church at Elkhart Lake will hold a vigil at the funeral home at 8 o'clock Thursday evening.
Sheboygan Press, Wed. Mar. 9, 1955, p. 16, c. 5
Peter Faust, 34, of Route 2, Elkhart Lake, a farmer in the town of Rhine, died Tuesday afternoon at St. Nicholas Hospital after an illness of several years.
A son of Adam and Mary Dorn Faust, he was born March 22, 1920, in the town of Rhine, and attended Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic school at Kiel. His marriage to Seraphine Dickrell of the town of Russell was solemnized June 18, 1947, at St. Ann's Church at St. Anna by the Rev. C.P. Kern. Since their marriage, the couple was engaged in farming in the town of Rhine. Mrs. Faust was a member of St. George Catholic Church at Elkhart Lake, the Holy Name Society of the parish, and the St. Ann branch of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. Survivors are the wife; a daughter, Joan, 5, and a son, Paul, 3; his parents; seven sisters, Sister Phyllis of Dickeyville, Wis., Sister Georgene of Milwaukee, Mrs. Elizabeth Melger of Town New Holstein, Miss Gertrude Faust, Town Rhine, and the Misses Margaret and Jane Faust, West Bend, and six brothers, Joseph and Alphonse, Town Rhine,Alvis and Leo, of Kiel, Benedict, of Plymouth, and Leo, of New Holstein. Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Friday at the Meiselwitz Funeral home, Kiel, and at 10 a.m. with a solemn requiem high mass at St. George Church at Elkhart Lake. The Rev. John Goebel, pastor, will be the celebrant. Burial will be in St. Ann's cemetery at St. Anna. The body will lie in state at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. Parishioners of St. George Catholic Church at Elkhart Lake will hold a vigil at the funeral home at 8 o'clock Thursday evening.
Sheboygan Press, Wed. Mar. 9, 1955, p. 16, c. 5
Family Members
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Joseph J. Faust
1914–1974
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Sr Mary Ann "Phyllis" Faust
1916–1999
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Elizabeth Leona Faust Melger
1918–1979
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Alvis Benedict Faust
1922–1990
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Benedict F. "Ben" Faust
1927–2001
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Alphonse P Faust
1928–1991
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Leon John Faust
1929–2006
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Leo W Faust
1929–2004
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Gertrude M. "Gertie" Faust Heimann
1931–2019
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Margaret Faust Steinert
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