Suggested Edit by David Haspert (47188065) from Catholic Advance on Fri. 19 Jun, 1959,Page 4.

Funeral Held For Father of 4 Religious (continued from page one) Rev. Temaat delivered the funeral sermon. Bishop John Franz was present in the sanctuary during the Requiem Mass. Mr. Stremel died June 8 after illness of three years.

He was born Nov. 28, 1885 at Pfeifer, Ks. where he married Anna Sauer on Jan. 19, 1904.

He farmed in the Loretto community, Rush County, until 1944 when he retired to Dodge City, KS. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish and of the Holy Name Society.

Survivors are his wife, four sons, Monsignor Alex Stremel, Father Joseph Stremel, Nicholas, Dodge City and Al P., Phoenix, Ariz; six daughters, Sister Mary Alexia, Marie, Dodge City, KS., Mrs. Clinton Issinghoff, Wichita, KS., Mrs. Matt Schoemaker, Ford, KS., Mrs. John Jacobs, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Raymond Schlitt, Russell, KS.; one sister, Mrs. Christina Weaver of Brighton, CO.; two brothers, Andrew of Arcadia, Calif. and Leo, Dighton, KS.; 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Three children are deceased, Anthony, Sister M. Loretto and Clara Rome.

The burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Dodge City, KS. Priests attending the funeral services were Monsignors J.J. Grellner, A.A. Hermann, Thomas Green, Joseph Gerstenkorn, George Herrman, Aloysius Priesner, George Husmann, George Stewart, John Zenner; Fathers, Leo Kelly, Joseph Fischer, Herman Schulte, Aloysius Felling, Raymond Schmidt, George Konda, Richard Konda, Henry Husmann, Bernard Groome, Gilbert Herrman; Fathers Herklotz, Jacob Dreher, William Vogel, Andrew McGovern, James Murphy, Joseph Grillot, Michael Blacklege, Richard Schinstock Walter Eeiss, Colin Boor, Robert Pepe and Joseph Donohoe.