Obituary: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: Joseph N. BEYER ************************************************************************ Submitted by Michael Petrie, Feb. 2006 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, March 8 and 10, 1951 Joseph N. Beyer, 63, a native of this city and the husband of the former Bernice Tingley of Fond du Lac, died at 5 p.m. Wednesday at his home in Chicago. The body of Mr. Beyer will be in state after 2 p.m. Friday at the Geo. M. Dugan funeral home, services to be held from there Saturday at 8:45 a.m. and at St. Joseph’s church at 9:15 a.m. Burial will be in Rienzi cemetery. Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Mrs. Gerald Novak; a son, Joseph, and a grandson, Michael Novak, all of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Nelson and Mrs. Clara Sanders, both of the city. Son of Martin and Catherine Beyer, Mr. Beyer was born April 8, 1887. (Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, Thurs. March 8, 1951, p. 34, c. 1) Funeral services for Joseph N. Beyer, who died Wednesday in Chicago, were held today at 8:45 a.m. at the Geo. M. Dugan funeral home and at 9:15 a.m. at St. Joseph’s church, the Rev. H.G. Riordan officiating. Pallbearers were Joseph Boehrig, Dennis Boehrig, Herbert Beyer, William Flanders, Paul Letourneau and Nick Cruciani. Burial was in Rienzi cemetery. Among those from away attending the rites were Mrs. Beyer, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beyer, and Mrs. Gerald Novak, Michael Novak and Mrs. Genvieve Krueger, Chciago, and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hein, Mrs. Dayton Rens and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Irish, all of Waupun. (Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, Sat. March 10, 1951, p. 16, c. 3)