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Thiel, Paul Leroy    28 Jul 2002    Aug, 2002    Don Johnson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  7/28/2002
THIEL, PAUL LEROY

A loving husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and 
friend, he went home to be with the Lord on Friday, July 26, 2002, at his residence 
in Hammond. He was 72 and a native of Hicksville, Ohio. He was a U.S. Navy Airman 
during the Korean conflict from October 1948 through 1954. He was retired from 
Commercial Intertech as a hydraulic technician. He was past president of a United 
Auto Workers local and a former city councilman for the town of Hicksville. He was a 
charter member of the McDonald Coffee Club in Hammond. He is survived by his wife, 
Consuela V. Thiel, Hammond; three sons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Betty, 
Hammond, Jon and Carrie, Milwaukee, and Patrick and Erica, Stillwater, Minn.; 
daughters and a son-in-law, Jan Andrus and Charles, Hammond, and Paula Jefferies, 
Fort Wayne, Ind.; grandchildren, Brian and wife Sarah, Ryan, Sea, Elizabeth, Sydney 
and Jessica Thiel, Tara and Brandon Kennedy and Whitney Andrus; a great-granddaughter, 
Nadia Kennedy-Emerick; and a brother, Leon Wayne Thiel, Hicksville. Preceded in 
death by his parents, Tellis Timothy and Lura Margaret Kisabeth Thiel. Visitation at 
Geisler Funeral Home, Ponchatoula, La. 54 N., from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. 
Visitation at the funeral home from 8 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. Monday, followed by a funeral 
procession to Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Hammond, where the Rev. John Pitzer will 
conduct a 10 a.m. Mass. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations 
by made to North Oaks Hospice Foundation. 

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