Visitation: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM Kramer Family Funeral Home Sherburn, Minnesota
Visitation: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM St. John's Lutheran Church Sherburn
Service: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:00 AM St. John's Lutheran Church Sherburn
Pastor Steven D. Wilson will be Officiating
Organist will be: Mary Lange
Congregational Singing
HONORARY BEARERS: Daniel Lovhaug, Paul Lovhaug, Bethany Lovhaug, Garrett Anthens, Jacob Anthens, Mackenzie Anthens, Grant Gaden, William Gaden, Zachary Anderson
CASKET BEARERS: John Wiese, Ronald Richeal, Loyal Koenck, Steven Doyle, Melroy Christiansen, Terrance Penning
INTERMENT: Sherburn Cemetery in Sherburn, Minnesota.
IN APPRECIATION...On behalf of the family, we wish to express their gratitude for your many kindnesses evidenced in thoughts, deeds, prayers, phone calls, cards, flowers, and for your presence at Bob's visitation and funeral service.

Robert Paul Wiese, Sr. was born September 25, 1915, to John and Anna (Lorenzen) Wiese in Warren Township, Carroll County, Manning, Iowa. He graduated from the 8th grade from Bell school in Flandreau, South Dakota. On June 11, 1936, Robert was united in marriage to Gertie Peper at the Lutheran Parsonage in Lake Preston, South Dakota by Rev. E.C. Eid. He was received into the Kingdom of God through Holy Baptism on March 3, 1938, and later confirmed on March 13, 1938, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chester, South Dakota.

When they were first married, they lived near Flandreau where they farmed with his parents. They later moved to the Dell Smith farm in 1938 where they farmed until moving to Rushmore, Minnesota, in 1956. They moved to a farm near Luverne, Minnesota. In 1957 they moved into Luverne where Bob did custom corn shelling and later drove a livestock truck. They later moved to Wilmont where Bob drove truck for Hoffman Trucking.

Bob went to Police School and was a Police Officer in Wilmont. They moved to Schuyler, Nebraska, and Bob worked for Young and Hay Company until moving back to Wilmont. In 1979 they moved to Village Apartments in Sherburn.

Gertie died on August 12, 2002. Bob became a resident of Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center on March 11, 2003. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Sherburn. He greatly enjoyed playing cards, especially cribbage and five-hundred. If he wasn't farming he went fishing.

Robert died on Tuesday evening, February 14, 2006, at Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center in Fairmont, Minnesota, at the age of ninety-years, four months, and seventeen days.

Robert is survived by his children: Roberta Garbers and her husband, Marvin, of Sherburn, Minnesota; Rosella Pavel and her husband, Norman, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska; and Robert Wiese Jr. and his wife, Jackie, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; granddaughters, Brenda Lovhaug and her husband, David, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota; Tammy Gaden and her husband, Thomas, of Omaha, Nebraska; Traci Anthens and her husband, John, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; Deanna Garbers of Sherburn, Minnesota; Marla Anderson and her husband, Clifford, of rural Sherburn, Minnesota; two step-grandsons, Russell and Robert Peterson; great-grandsons, Daniel Lovhaug of Brooklyn Park, Garrett Anthens of Nebraska City, and Paul Lovhaug of Brooklyn Park, Jacob Anthens of Nebraska City, Grant Gaden of Omaha, William Gaden of Omaha and Zachary Anderson of rural Sherburn; great-granddaughters, Bethany Lovhaug of Brooklyn Park, Mackenzie Anthens of Nebraska City; four step-great-grandchildren, Michael, Amy, David and Lisa Peterson; one step-great-great granddaughter, Anna Peterson; one step-great-great grandson, Cody Peterson; three sisters, Winnifred Luschen, Edythe Garrison and Maxine Doyle all of Flandreau; two sisters-in-law, Ethel Wiese and Viola Peper both of Flandreau; several nieces and nephews and other relatives.

Robert was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Gertie; four brothers, Carl, Bernhardt, Elmer, and Andrew Wiese; four sisters, Adeline Christiansen and her husband, Henry; Johannah Volkmann and her husband, Herbert; Marie Koenck and her husband, Emil; Alice Richeal and her husband, Raymond; brothers and sisters-in-law, Henry Luschen, Ervin Doyle, Richard Garrison, Viola and George Relf, Herman and Francis Peper, Emil and Wilma Peper and Edna and Desmond Johnson and other relatives.