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- Carl M. Nilles, 71, of 516 6th St., Kiel, died this morning at Calumet Memorial Hospital in Chilton. He had been in ill health for several months. Active in telephone company service for 41 years, he was manager of the Kiel branch of the Commonwealth and General Telephone Co. before his retirement in May, 1959. He was employed originally in 1917 as a lineman working out of Chilton. In 1926, he was transferred to Kiel as a lineman and station maintenance man. Later, he was made manager of the exchange and served since in that capacity.
He was born May 28, 1894, in Greenleaf, Wis., the son of the late Matthias and Angeline Nilles. He attended the Catholic parochial school in Hilbert. His marriage to the former Aurelia Henschel of Kiel took place on Oct. 28, 1933 in Kiel. Besides being a member of Ss. Peter and Paul Church, he was affiliated with the Holy Name Society, local branch of Knights of Columbus, Redman Lodge of Kiel and the lodge's 24-hour Club.
Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Paul (Mary) Wassenberg of Menomonee Falls; three grandchildren; six sisters, Mrs. Magdalene Escher and Mrs. Margaret Kent, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. Anna Pitsch, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Edward Dreschler, Appleton; Mrs. Carl Hein, Kiel and Mrs. Oscar Pruess, Hilbert; and five brothers, Joseph of Green Bay, Al, Akron, Ohio, Math and Lawrence, Chilton and Floyd, Stanford, Mich.
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Kiel, following brief rites at 9 a.m. at Meiselwitz Funeral Home, Kiel. The Rev. George Kieffer will be celebrant of the requiem Mass.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 p.m. Sunday to the time of services on Monday. The Knights of Columbus will recite the rosary at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, and the Holy Name Society, at 8 p.m.
Sheboygan Press, Fri. Sept. 3, 1965, p. 8, c. 6
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1894 - 1965 (71 years)
, d. 24 Jul 1942, Calumet County, Wisconsin