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Clair County Obits
VIRGIL EUGENE LESMEISTER
Clinton Daily Democrat
November 1992
Virgil Eugene Lesmeister was born March 13, 1928, near the family farm
near Montrose, the son of Frank and Mary (Kloer) Lesmeister. He passed
away at the home southeast of Montrose on October 29, 1992, at the age
of 64. He attended the Lookout and St. Mary's Schools and was a member
of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Montrose. He was
united in marriage to Aladene Westhusing on June 12, 1950. This union
was blessed with eight children. They made their home on the same farm
since their marriage of 42 years. He was a farmer and later a truck
driver for some 30 years for the Jim Tiona Trucklines of Butler and
Clearfield Cheese, Clinton, and lastly for the Innerstate Express. He
was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Basil. He is
survived by his wife, Aladene, of the home, and four daughters,
Shirley Dixon, Clinton, Virginia Walton, Janet Lesmeister and Carol
Frost, all of Appleton City; four sons, Vernon Lesmeister, Appleton
City, Ronnie Lesmeister, New Florence, Douglas Lesmeister, Lockwood,
and Danny Lesmeister, Montrose; 13 grandchildren; three brothers, Clem
Lesmeister, Butler, Richard Lesmeister, Clinton, and Raymond
Lesmeister, Montrose; three sisters, Agnes Westhusing, Montrose, Cleo
Rice, Clinton, and Eunice Rotert, Montrose. The rosary was said Sunday
night, November 1, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at 7
and the funeral mass was at 11 a.m. Monday morning, November 2, with
burial in St. Mary's Cemetery, Montrose. Pallbearers were nephews,
Dale, Anthony, John and Jim Lesmeister, Bryan Westhusing and Michael
Rotert. Sickman-Dunning, Clinton, was in charge of the services. He
will be sadly missed by his relatives and friends.
