Obit: Ahlquist, Rueben Louis (1926 - 2009)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Ahlquist, Ahrens, Hadler, Otto, Stahel, Thurs, Volhard
----Source: The Record - Review (Abbotsford, WI) 10/10/2009
Ahlquist, Rueben Louis (10 MAY 1926 - 7 OCT 2009)
Rueben Louis Ahlquist, 83, Edgar, died Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at Harbor
House, Wausau.
Funeral Service will be 3:00 p.m. Monday October 12, 2009 at St. Matthew
Evangelical Lutheran Church, 712 2nd Street, Marathon. Rev. Jon W. Hadler will
officiate. Burial at St. Mary Cemetery, Marathon, at a later date.
Friends may call from 3:00 – 6:30 p.m. Sunday, October 11, 2009 at
Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, 327 N. 3rd Avenue, Edgar and again from 2:00 p.m.
until the time of the service on Monday at the church. There will be a 6:00 p.m.
prayer service on Sunday at the Edgar funeral home.
Military rites will be conducted by the VFW Edgar Memorial Post #10187 and Edgar
American Legion Sawyer-Drumm Post #393 immediately following the service at the
church.
He was born May 10, 1926 in the Township of Emmet, son of the late Arthur and
Laurena (Ahrens) Ahlquist. On July 4, 1962 he married Clara Volhard at St.
Mary's Rectory, Marathon. She preceded him in death April 7, 2004.
Rueben was a United States Army Veteran serving in the Korean War. He was a
member of the Edgar American Legion.
Throughout his life Rueben worked as a plumber.
Survivors include two stepdaughters, Janice (Tony) Thurs, Edgar and Donna
(Fiancé Eugene Stahel) Otto, Wausau, six grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, two brothers Raymond and Elroy
and nephew, Phillip Ahlquist.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Marathon.
Online condolences may be expressed at
www.petersonkraemer.com.
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