Funeral services for Harold Glenn Wetzel of Manning were held at 2 p.m. today, Monday, July 10, at the United Methodist Church of Manning.
Mr. Wetzel, 80, died Friday morning, July 7, 1995, at Manning General Hospital.
The Rev. Larry McAlpine officiated the service. Burial was in the Manning City Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Gall Wetzel, Darrell Miller, Scott Grissom, David Wetzel, Don Trotter, and Dennis Erb.
A son of Andrew Franklin and Inga Elizabeth (Johnson) Wetzel, he was born March 7, 1915, near Manilla in Shelby County. He grew up in that area, attending the local country school. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church as a child. In 1937, he began farming with his brother, Lyle, near Manilla.
On September 10, 1941, he married Vernie Eunice Pedersen of Irwin. At that time, they transferred their church memberships to the Methodist Church in Irwin. They continued to farm in the Irwin and Manilla area until 1951, when they purchased a farm at Sewal in Wayne County. There the couple transferred their church membership to the EUB Church. While at Sewal, Mr. Wetzel fanned and worked at the milk processing plant at Allerton. In 1960, he leased a DX service station as a family project.
After Mr. Wetzel suffered a light stroke in 1962, the farm was sold and the family moved to Manning, where Mr. Wetzel operated the DX station at the corner of Fifth and Main. He later moved to the DX station and cafe on Highway 141, which became a family business. In 1965, they gave up the cafe and station and Mr. Wetzel worked at Nelson Manufacturing in Manning and later Emmert Manufacturing in Audubon, retiring in 1981.
Mr. Wetzel experienced health problems in recent years and was confined to a wheel chair.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Manning.
Survivors include his wife, Vernie of Manning; two sons, Harold and his wife, Joyce, of Kansas City, Missouri, and
Robert and his wife, Laura, of Kansas City, Kansas; a son-in-law, Larry Reder of St. Joseph, Missouri; five grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren; two step-granddaughters; three brothers, Albert and his
wife, Jeanette, of Bayard, Kenneth and his wife, Daisy, of Bayard and Ivan and
his wife, Marlys, of Badger; two sisters, Ruby Jensen of Ankeny and Ilo Miller and her husband,
Wayne, of Ames; and three brothers-in-law, Gordon Pedersen and his wife,
Margaret, of Omaha, Nebraska, Kenneth Pedersen of Irwin and Allyn Erb of Manning.