Bio: Felser, Dwayne (Veterans Service Officer - 1973)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Felser, Ludovic,

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/23/1973

Felser, Dwayne (Veterans Service officer - 1973)

Dwayne Felser, 51, will begin duties officially in early September as the new Clark County Veteran’s Affair Officer but stated that he may begin to organize his office sometime this week.

Felser was selected at the recent meeting of the Clark County board of Supervisors, August 14, succeeding the late Peter Ludovic, who died while in office.

Married and the father of three children, Felser was employed as a mechanic with Gross Chevrolet-Olds since the company moved to its Division street address several years ago.

Felser’s new duties in his Clark County courthouse office will be centered on assisting veterans in gaining burial allowance, VA loans, disability claims, pensions, widow’s benefits, and GI educational grants for veterans returning to school.

The new administrator related to the Press that the veteran’s officer on the county level used to be a political appointment but that the state veteran’s affairs office now played an active role in the selection of possible candidates for the position.

After a local advertisement appeared in county newspapers, Felser applied, along with 27 applicants for the position. All 27 were required to take a state test composed of 122 questions on public law, business administration, and psychology.

Only ten of the 27 passed the exam. From the ten who passed, the county board’s veteran affairs committee interviewed each of the men and three were picked for greater screening. Other candidates included James Wasserberger and Forest Larsen.

After a deeper interview by the veteran’s committee members, the three were nominated for a vote of the entire county board with the final result being Felser’s gathering 20 votes out of the possible 27.

Felser’s service record includes being called to active duty in August of 1940 from the local Neillsville guard unit and being sent to Camp Beauregard and Livingston in Louisiana.

From the southern camps he was sent to Fort Dixon in Massachusetts and believed heading for the European front but the group was transferred to Fort Ord in California and boarded troop ships for Australia.

Felser’s Infantry group faced battle in New Guinea and he was involved in the first offensive campaign of the war in the Pacific theatre.

Rotation brought him back to the States where he was hospitalized for six months in Brooks General Hospital in Texas with a case of Malaria.

It was in Texas that he met his wife, Annette, a native of San Antonio and they were married in March of 1945.

With a discharge in September of 1945, Felser and his wife returned to his Wisconsin home.

Felser’s children include Linda and Kathleen, both graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a son, Joseph, working for Svetlik Motor Company in Neillsville.
           

 

 


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