Wessels, Harold Martin (b. 7 APR 1918, d. 26 JUL 2002)

Note: Stuttgart Arkansas USA
Harold Martin Wessels, age 85, of Stuttgart died Friday. He was born on April 7, 1917, and was a retired owner of Riceland Machine and Supply. Mr. Wessels was a Lutheran and a veteran of WWII. Survivors are his wife, Evelyn; one son, Terry Brinkley of Stuttgart; one daughter, Helen Smith of Houston, Texas; one sister, Alice Powell; four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Turpin Funeral Home Chapel, with Sour in Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery by Turpin. Memorials may be made to Emanuel Lutheran Church or to VFW Post 2904.

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 28 APR 1918
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran church register book 1, page 60

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 7 APR 1918
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran church register book 1, page 60

City: Stuttgart

Reference: 1957

Reference: 1963

Reference: 1966

Cause: Stroke

Reference: 1977

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 18 JUN 1922
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA at St John's Lutheran church register book 1, page 65

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 13 MAY 1922
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA at St John's Lutheran church register book 1, page 65

Reference: 1980

Reference: 1984

Reference: 1987

Confirmation: Date: 1937
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 229

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 21 NOV 1920
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 62

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 10 OCT 1920
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 62

Reference: 1988

Confirmation: Date: 23 APR 1944
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 241

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 3 MAR 1929
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 73

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 20 JAN 1929
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 73

Event: Type: Burried
Place: Prairie Hill, Texas

City: Irving

Reference: 1990

Confirmation: Date: 1 JUN 1941
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, item 70

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 14 FEB 1926
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, item 70

Event: Type: Marriage data
Date: 3 MAY 1956
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 330

Event: Type: Sponsors
Place: Francis Al and Frances Graham

City: Russellville

Reference: 1991

Event: Type: Burried
Date: 24 OCT 2006
Place: Prairie Hill, Texas

Reference: 2000

Note: OBITUARY


Death Claims A. J. Mommsen, Iowa Native

Arlo J. Mommsen, yard manager for J. I. Porter Co., died at 1:50 a.m. today in the city hospital of a heart ailment. He was 63.
Mr. Mommsen had been employed by the firm for the past 19 years. He had previously worked for Stuttgart Cooperative Buyers Association and owned and managed the Stuttgart Lumber Co.
A native of Goose Lake, Iowa, he moved to AR in 1911. Mr. Mommsen was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and a veteran of World War 1.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Katye Wessels Mommsen; a daughter, Arlene Mommsen of Memphis; one son, Robert Mommsen, Stuttgart; two grandchildren, and a brother, Gartus Mommsen, Stuttgart.
Funeral will be at 2:30 P. M. Saturday in St. John's Lutheran Church with the Rev. E. A. Brockmann conducting the service.
Sour will be in Lone Tree Cemetery by Turpin Funeral Home.

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 27 JUL 1896
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, index 15

Reference: 2011

Cause: Heart attack

Confirmation: Date: 14 APR 1935
Place: Stuttgart AR., St John's Lutheran Church, book 1, page 227

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 2 JAN 1921
Place: St John's Lutheran Church, Stuttgart Arkansas USA.

Event: Type: Marriage data
Date: 3 DEC 1944
Place: Stuttgart AR., St John's Lutheran Church, book 1, page 319.

Event: Type: Sponsors
Place: Harold Wessels and Cecile Majuri

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 30 NOV 1920
Place: Stuttgart AR., St John's Lutheran Church, book 1, page 63.

Reference: 2012

Cause: Heart attack

Note: Obituary

Traffic Injuries
Fatal For Former Almyra Woman

Mrs Charlotte Arlene Mommsen Jackson, 39, of Memphis, died Friday, in Memphis hospital, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Sunday, Dec. 21, at Memphis.
Mrs. Mommsen was born March 5,1930 at Almyra, and had lived in this area up until about 15 years ago. She was an employee of the Central Collection Department of the First National Bank of Memphis, and a Lutheran.
Surviving are her husband Edward Jackson, of Memphis, and her mother, Mrs. Katye Mommsen, of Stuttgart; a brother, Robert Mommsen, of Stuttgart; two nephews and a niece.
Funeral was at 2 pm. Sunday in St. John's Lutheran Church here by the Rev. E. A. Brockman, with Sour in Lone Tree Cemetery.

Confirmation: Date: 2 APR 1944
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., at St John's Lutheran Church register, book 1, page 240

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 30 MAR 1930
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., at St John's Lutheran Church register, book 1, page 74

Event: Type: Marriage data
Date: 26 NOV 1968
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA at St John's Lutheran church register book 2, item 68

Reference: 2013

Cause: Automobile accident in Memphis TN.

Confirmation: Date: 29 JUN 1947
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, page 245

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 29 JUN 1947
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, index 331

Event: Type: Born data
Date: 6 NOV 1923
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., St John's Lutheran Church register, index 331

Reference: 2017

Cause: Heart attack

Note: History of Helen Humphrey Sartorius

By Robert Richard Wessels

During the fall and winter of 1996-97, Mother relayed the following information and stories to Me.

Father Humphrey
Mother HumphreyDied September 5th, 1910

Particulars of couple is . Three children were born:

Louise HumphreyB Sep 15, 1903 D Oct 18, 1961
Robert P (Bob) HumphreyB Mar 17, 1907 D Mar 1, 1958
Helena Rosine HumphreyB Apr 6, 1910

When Mother Humphrey died the three children were placed in orphanages.

Helen was place in the Lutheran Orphanage Home (Missouri Synod) in St Louis, they only took children under the age of three. Mother was five months old at the time her Mother died, (Per her Sister Louise).

Louise and Bob were place in a Methodist Orphanage that took older children.
A doctor named "TATE" adopted Bob and Louise.

Cris and Hilda Sartorius, a German family, Living at Brinkley, Arkansas wanted to adopt a little girl and had informed their Lutheran minister of this. The minister and his wife made frequent trips to St Louis. On one of their trips back from St Louis in December of 1910 they brought back Helen Humphrey to the Sartorius'.

Hilda never mentioned anything about adoption papers during her lifetime. No adoption records were found in Hilda's possession after her death. However, according to what Hilda had relayed to Lena, years ago was that they (Cris and Hilda (Wilken) Sartorius) had adopted Helen Humphrey in June of 1911.

Records indicate she was baptised June 18th, 1911 at Wheatley, AR (near Forrest City). Witnesses: Frank Booker and Rosine Oehlschlaeger. Hilda had wanted a daughter for some time and wanted her name to be "LENA". So that is the name she went by during her childhood.
Since Lena was adopted by German parents, she learned to speak German.
Chris and Hilda had a son named George about ten years older than Lena. George had attended school and learned to speak English. George taught Lena to speak some English in her early childhood.

EVENTS OF HER LIFE:

Mother's Memories


About 1913 or 14 the Sartorius' moved their belongings by train to Stuttgart Arkansas USAkansas and
settled on a farm east of their. They joined the Emanuel Lutheran Church, Records and dates of
the family are in the church register.

About 1915 or 16 they moved two and one-half miles from Independence School, which was
northwest of Stuttgart about 5 miles. (Located one mile north of the Family home place)

In 1916 A tornado blew the Independence School away. This is where she was to start school.
So her starting to school was delayed a year until the school was rebuilt. Then due to farming
operations, busy making hay, etc. she did not get in on the beginning of the school year. She had
lots of sickness in the first years of school. She had whooping cough at age nine.

Another move was made to just south of Clearpoint school. She attended that school for a time
before quitting school while in the seventh grade.

While on the farms she remembers riding in a rice seeder being pulled with a team of horses
driven by Chris, her father, her job was to keep the seeder hopper full of seed rice. As they was
returning from the field the mules crossed a wooden bridge, which the hoofs of the mules make a
loud noise, the mules spooked and when they reached the barnyard all the other horses began to
run, about that time George came out of the barn waving his hat and the run-a-way team stopped.
Hilda, her mother was screaming get out of the wagon. Another job she remembers is punching
wires on a hay bailer at hay making time.

In the earlier years Chris had horses and mules to do the field work, later he had a case tractor.
He raised rice, oats, wheat and hay. Also, raised a big garden.

Another move was made to Stuttgart, just off west 2nd street.

From this location Lena walked the Emanuel Lutheran Church to attend confirmation school. She
was confirmed with about 15 in her class.

Some how Louise found Lena when she was 18 years old. Louise was older and knew that she
had a younger sister.

When Geike and family left llinois USA and move to Stuttgart, they lived at 10th and Main. He
started a brick manufacturing business, which was located a few blocks easat and south of 10th
and Main. Geike furnished bricks for the High School when it was built in the early 1900's.
Fred worked in the brick yard with his father, and warned him people who had purchased bricks
on credit.

Sometime between 1914 and 1918 Geike borrowed money and purchased the Wessels' Home
Place (one mile west of Clearpoint school) and the place were Adolf farmed. (One half mile south
of the Home place and on the north side of the road. Geike and family lived here for about a year
before moving back into Stuttgart on West 2nd Street.

Attended the funeral of Charlotte Shannon in January 1989, Warren and Leland was present.
Charlotte died 02 January 1989.

Louise sent a baby bed when Robert was born.

Johanna and her twin sister, Kate, is Maggie's mother.

Oscar went to Colorado Springs on Christmas Day 25, December 1924, and returned about
Easter. Geike and Johanna thought he had TB but it turned out only to be a bad case of the flu
and he was run down. He had Modern Woodman's insurance.

Cyrus and Lena Luke visited Arkansas yearly, They bought a 160 acre rice farm south and across
the road form the home place. Cyrus was a doctor and died at an early age, Lena still made trips
to Stuttgart to check on the property, finally selling it.

Geike and Johanna was living on 515 West Second St when he died, there was a loan on the
house, Geike left no money, so the house was taken over by the bank an Johanna moved in with
her daughter, Katye.

Arlo and Katye Mommsen and Gartus Mommsen lived on the old Mommsen home place
southwest of Almyra and farmed. Arlo and Katye moved to Stuttgart about 1930, he first worked
as a salesman selling cars at the ford place, later worked in a lumber yard.


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From the confirmation record at the Emanuel Church, Stuttgart Arkansas USA.
Form record #170, page 222

Lena Rosine Sartorius (adopted) Born april 10, 1910 in St Louis, Middels, Ostfriesland, Germany.
Father Chris Sartorius
Sartorius' transfered form Wheatly, AR.

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The following is an e-mail message from Ann Salzman


Subject:
Re: Sartorius
Date:
Wed, 31 May 2000 18:43:53 -0500
From:
asalzman@@uiuc.edu (Ann Salzmann)
To:
Robert Wessels (by way of asalzman@@uiuc.edu (Ann Salzmann))

The information that I have about the Sartorius' (besides what's on the web) is:

1. The following announcement was in the Ostfriesische Nachrichtung March
1, 1898:
Engaged:
Christian G. Sartorius
Hilke Sartorius
born Wilken
Ashkum, Illinois USAl. Feb. 16, 1898

2. I have a picture of them -- possibly their wedding picture. [I also
have a snapshot of Hilda, Minnie Wilken (her brother John's wife), and my
grandmother (her brother Herman's wife) .. taken when they were fairly
old.]

3. I have two obituaries of Chris Sartorius, one from the Ostfriesische
Nachrichtung and one from the Ashkum Journal (Jan. 28, 1927). (You will
recognize some inaccuracies, but here they are:)

a. (from the Ostfriesische Nachrichtung, my translation:)
At the age of 57 years, 8 months, and 5 days, Christian Gerdes Sartorius
died here on Dec. 18 and was buried on Dec. 24 in the cemetery of the
Immanuel Lutheran congregation, at which Pastor A. . Krebs of Clinton,
Iowa, gave the sermon. The deceased was born April 13, 1869, in Muggenkrug
(Mueggenkrug) Ostf., and was also baptized and confirmed over there. In
the year 1888 he emigrated to America and in fact to Danforth, Ill., where
he was married in the year 1898 to Hilke WIlken. In the year 1903, they
moved to Wheatley, Ark, and have lived since 1914 in the neighborhood of
Stuttgart Arkansas USAkansask. A few years ago he suffered an accident while working and
since then has been ill. Now after a four-day stay in the hospital in Hot
Springs he has departed this life. He leaves, beside his widow, a son and
a married daughter.
The bereaved relations
Stuttgart Arkansas USAkansas

b. from the Ashkum Journal (Jan. 28, 1927):
OBITUARY OF CHRIS SARTORIUS
Christian G. Sartorius was born in Muggenkruck Kreis Wittmund
Ger. on April 13, 1869, and died at St. Joseph's hospital in Hot
Springs, AR on December 18, 1926, at the age of 57 years, 8 months
and 5 days.
The deceased came to America at the age of 19 years and settled
near Danforth, llinois USA. There he stayed with his sister, Mrs. Julius
Muller, for a time. He then engaged in farming.
On February 16, 1898, he was married to Hilke WIlken at Danforth,
llinois USA, by Rev. Staehling. The couple then moved to Ashkum township,
where they engaged in farming for a number of years. This union was
blessed with two children, Georg and Mrs. Lena B. Wessels of Stuttgart,
AR.
In 1903, Mr. Sartorius and his family moved to Wheatley AR
and settled on a farm there until 1914, when he and his family moved to
Stuttgart, where he resided until the time of his death.
The deceased was a well known and highly respected man, and carried
on rice-farming on large scale in his community.
His friendly and loving disposition made him a host of true
friends. His health began to fail about a year ago, and death was due to
cancer.
He leaves to mourn his death his beloved wife, Mrs. Hilke
Sartorius, and two children, George and Mrs. Lena Wessels, besides a host
of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon December 24, 1926,
by Rev. Kribs at the Lutheran Church in Stuttgart, and his body was laid to
rest in Burkle cemetery.
May he rest in peace.
Contributed
We are pleased to print the above sketch concerning one of our former
residents, and Askhum people extend to Mrs. Sartorius and children their
deepest expressions of sympathy.
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I think that's all I have about the Sartorius family. My mother will be
happy to hear that your mother enjoyed the birthday card. I hope she had a
nice day.

Ellery Knake is not well. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is.
Connie keeps busy.

Ann Salzmann
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Obituary

Helen Wessels
April 6, 1910
June 3, 2003

Helen S. "Lena" Wessels. 93, of Pine Bluff, died June 3, 2003, at White Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born April 6 1910, at St. Louis, a Daughter of the Late Chris Sartorius and Hilda Wilkins Sartorius.
She was reared and received her early education at Stuttgart. She moved to Pine bluff in 1950.
She was a homemaker and member of Trinity Lutheran Church.
She was preceded in death on December 26, 1991, by her husband, Oscar G. Wessels, Whom she married on January 17, 1926, at Stuttgart: and a great-grandson.
Survivors include four sons, Robert R. Wessels of Idabel, Oklahoma, Charles H. Wessels of Ruston, Louisiana, Lloyd A. Wessels of White Hall and William L. "Bill" Wessels of Fort Smith: one Daughter Ruby Wessels Poteet of Pine Bluff, 14 grandchildren 30 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church With Dean Clausing officiating. Sour will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Ralph Robinson and son Funeral Directors.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be make to Trinity Lutheran Church, 4200 Old Warren Road, Pine Bluff, Arkansas USAkansas 71603

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Obituary source: Pine Bluff Commercial - Thursday June 5, 2003

Confirmation: Date: 28 JUN 1925
Place: Stuttgart Arkansas USA., at Emanuel Lutheran Church register, book 1, page 222, item 170

Event: Type: Marriage data
Place: See Oscar

City: Pine Bluff

Reference: 2052

Country: Jefferson

Reference: 2056

Note: OBITUARY - Pine Bluff Commercial, Wednesday July 26, 2000

SPENCER WESSELS

Spencer Ryan Wessels, infant of 310 Barney Cove, White Hall, died July 24, 2000, at University Hospital at Little Rock.
He was born July 19, 2000, a son of Mitchell Todd Wessels and Joann Shugart Wessels of White Hall.
Other survivors include Brothers Michael Todd Wessels and Evan Charles Wessels both of White Hall: a sister Cara Ann Wessels of White Hall; Grandparents, Lloyd Wessels and Wanda Wessels, both of White Hall, L O Shugart of Pine Bluff and Johanna and Andy Turpening of Round Rock, Texas; and a great-grand parent, Helen Wessels of Pine Bluff.
Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev Dean Clausing officiating. Arrangements being handled by Ralph Robinson & Son Funeral Directors at Pine Bluff.

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Graveside Service

As at our baptisms we make our beginning in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit.



1 Thes. 4:13-18

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. 16For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left,will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

We are gathered here in memory of Spencer Ryan Wessels and to find comfort from our faith in an
almighty and caring God. The Lord in his wisdom has spoken to us in his written word. We turn to
portions of that word to find comfort today.

(The first scripture reading reminds us to look to the Lord because he promises to keep and protect
us through all troubles)


Psalm 121:1-8

A Song of Ascents.
I lift up my eyes to the hills--from where will my help come?
2My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
3He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
4He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
8The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.



(The second scripture reading is one that is often used at the baptism of a child. It is a passage I referred to at the baptism of Michael and Evan and Spencer. Each living being is important to Christ no matter how big orsmall, young or old. Christ in these words tells us that he wants the little children as part of his kingdom as well as all others. In aptism Spencer Ryan was made a child of God.)



Mark 10:13-16

People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples

spoke sternly to them. 14But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the

little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God

belongs. 15Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will

never enter it." 16And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.



(In the next scripture we are reminded that our baptism is a baptism into the eternal life Christ has to give. We find some comfort in knowing that Spencer shares this eternal life with us.)



Romans 6:3-5

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.



WE PRAY



O God our Father, whose Son took children in his arms and blessed them, grant your comfort to Mitch, Joann, Cara and all those who morn with them at the lose of this child. Give them a strong faith and the sure and certain hope of the resurrection when we shall meet in heavenly joy and glory; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.


(The following is a special passage that I want to share with you.)


Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord,

he who created you, O Jacob,

he who formed you, O Israel:

Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by name, you are mine.



Spencer Ryan Wessels is a very important person. I read his obituary in the paper.
It wasn't very long. Yet it was not all the short.
It lacked only a few lines of being as long as anyone elses obituary.
I generally read the obituary after sharing a short message but I would like to read his obituary with a couple very important facts added.

Spencer Ryan Wessels, infant, of 310 Barney Cove, White Hall died July 24, 2000 at University Hospital at Little Rock.

He was born July 19, 2000, a son of Mitchell Todd Wessels and Joann Shugart Wessels of White Hall.

He was baptized on July 21 and became a part of the family of God. He was one of the newest members of TrinityLutheran Church.

Survivors include two brothers, Michael Todd Wessels and Evan Charles Wessels, and a sister, Cara Ann Wessels of White Hall. Other survivors are his grandparents, Lloyd and Wanda Wessels of White Hall, L.O. Shugart of Pine Bluff, and Johanna and Andy Turpening of Round Rock, Texas, and a great-grand mother, Helen Wessels of Pine Bluff.

As you can see Spencer Ryan was a very important person. He was loved by many family members and is morned not only by them but many of the friends of family and members of Trinity Lutheran. But most of all he is loved by God.

I could not help but think of passage from Isaiah. Since you don't have it printed in front of you allow me to read it again.



Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord,

he who created you, O Jacob,

he who formed you, O Israel:

Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by name, you are mine.

The first time I visited Joann in the hospital I saw the names of the yet unborn boys that were written on the marker board. I thought about how prophetic that is. Not only where their names written on a marker board but they are written in the kingdom of God. Before they were born you had a name for them and a place for them in your heart. Before they were born God had a place for them in his heart.

Spencer Ryan has been very special to you for a long time. He was hoped for, he was planned for, he was rejoiced over when he was born. And he is now part of your family in the memories you will have.

Time will heal the hurt especially with so many other joys to occupy your minds. But you will always have a name that you will recall as being a part of you.



Being called by name is important. It means so much more to address some one by name.
For some people it is easy to recall names, others have to struggle with it.
If we have trouble with names we have to struggle sometimes to remember even the names of people we feel we should know well. This passage from Isaiah isone that is addressed to all believers in Christ. God in his wisdom des not forget his children. And he certainly has not forgotten Spencer Ryan Wessels. To our Lord Spencer is a special person just as you are. Jesus died
for Spencer and Jesus lives for Spencer just as he is now taking care of Spencer.
He has Spencer by name, and he has called as one of his own children.



Just as you have called Spencer Ryan as your own child has your loving God called him by name. Through the waters of baptism the Lord has named him as one of his very own. Suddenly his care was out of your hands and that of the most skilled doctors. Spencer still has some one caring for him. His father in heaven is holding him and keeping him eternally. Spencer is ahead of us in many ways. In his short life he has acquired more then any of us here. He has a faith in Jesus. He has a loving, caring heavenly Father. He has a home in heaven. It is for these things that we rejoice. It is for the assurance that God gives us that Spencer Ryan at home with his heavenly father the allows us to thank God and find peace in our lives. Amen.


The Prayers

Pastor: O God, the Father in heaven

have mercy on us.

O God, the Son who has redeemed the world,

have mercy on us.

O God, the Holy Spirit,

have mercy on us

and give us your peace.

All: God of all grace, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to bring life to each of us. We give
you thanks because by Jesus' death, the power that death held over us was destroyed, and by His
resurrection the kingdom of heaven was opened to all who believe. Make us certain that because
Jesus lives, we shall live also, and that neither death nor life, nor things present nor things to come,
will ever be able to separate us from your love in Christ Jesus our Lord, who lives and rules with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.



We now commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subdue all things to himself.

May God the Father, who created this body, may God the Son who by his blood redeemed this body, may God the Holy Spirit, who by Holy Baptism sanctified this body to be his temple, keep these remains to the day of the resurrection of all flesh. Amen.

Lord, remember us in you kingdom and teach us to pray:

The Lord's Prayer



Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name,

thy kingdom come,

thy will be done

on earth as it is in heaven,

Give us this day our daily bread;

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom

and the power and the glory

forever and ever. Amen.





The Closing Prayer



Pastor: Almighty and most merciful God, you bring us through suffering and death with our Lord Jesus Christ to enter with him into glory. Grant us grace at all times to acknowledge and accept your holy and gracious will, to remain in true faith, and to find peace and joy in the resurrection of the dead and the glory of everlasting life through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

People: Amen.



The Dismissal



Pastor: Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the love of God the Father,

and the comfort of the Holy Spirit,

be with you always.

Amen

Reference: 2085

Note: A record taken for Schwer Lutheran Church Records:
From Mary Buhr.

Br�utigam: Geike H Wessels
Geboren den: February 9 1856 in Middles, Ostf.,
Stand und Wohnort: Farmer in Crescent Township

Braut: Johanna Osterburg
Geboren den August 9, 1865 in Weghaerin, Je?verland
Wohnort: Belmonth Township, Iroquois Co. llinois USA
Getraut den: July 26, 1886 in Crescent Township
Zeugen: Harm Wessels and toni Osterburg

Entered here by Robert Wessels September 17, 2001

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Note: Newspaper clipping from Ollie (Wessels) Rudowske's Scrapbook
NewsPaper: Stuttgart Daily LEADER
Date: Wed. June 4, 1969

Mr and Mrs Wessels will
Celebrate 50th Anniversity

Mr and Mrs Alfred Wessels will be honered Sunday with openhouse on their 50th wedding anniversity from 2 to 4 P.M. in the St John's educational building at Fourth and College St.
The couple was m arried June 6, 1919 in the parsonage of Emanuel Lutheran Church.
The Rev . C H Houser officiated.. Martha E Scheller Zorell and Elmer Wessels were attendants.
The couple has three living sons, Roger, Winston and Francis. The fourth, Herbert, is deceased. They have five grandchildren.
The couple requests that no gifts be brought.