Richard Laurence Gruener

1939 - 2003  (63 years)

• Name	Richard Laurence Gruener
  Born	11 May 1939	Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Mar 2003	North Manchester, Wabash Co, Indiana, USA
  Buried	Wabash, Wabash Co, Indiana, USA (Falls Memorial Gardens)
  Person ID	I71782	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Carl Richard Gruener
  Mother	Thora Mattson
  Family ID	F28331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Lucille Peters,   b. 23 Jan 1900, Indiana, USA ,   d. 9 Mar 1987, North Manchester, Wabash Co, Indiana, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Married	9 Dec 1939
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2015
  Family ID	F28330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Cemetery: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46262135 OBITUARY - Plain Dealer, Wabash (IN) - Monday, March 17, 2003 NORTH MANCHESTER--Richard Laurence Gruener, 92, Peabody Retirement Community, North Manchester, died at 4:50 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2003, at the Peabody Healthcare Center. He was born on May 11, 1910, in Chicago, Ill., to Carl Richard and Thora (Mattson) Gruener. He married Margaret Lucille Peters on Dec. 9, 1939. She died on March 9, 1987. Formerly of 783 N. East St., he moved to Peabody's in 1986. He was a retired custodian and maintenance worker at the Honeywell Center. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and a Meals on Wheels volunteer. He was a member of the Wabash Presbyterian Church and a former member of the Men's Full Gospel Fellowship, the Somerset Masonic Lodge and the Wabash Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No.286. Surviving are a sister, Virginia Gruener, Niles, Ill.; and three nieces, Sandy Campbell, Wabash, Bobbie Ray, Huntington, and Annabelle Bowman, LaFontaine. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Grandstaff-Hentgen Main Street Chapel. The Rev. John Ritchie will officiate. #Burial will be in Falls Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Preferred memorials are to the Wabash Presbyterian Church.