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Roland Harder
1974
Roland H. Harder, 53, 708 South Third Street, a partner in the Hafemeister
Furniture Store and Funeral Home, passed away Wednesday evening at the
Watertown Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock
at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
A graduate of Watertown High School and Worsham
College of Mortuary science, he was a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church,
where he had served on the church council and acted as chairman of its building
committee. He was a former member and
director of the choir.
Harder was a member and past president of the Watertown Municipal Band, and
was currently serving as its treasurer, and the Watertown Musicians Association
Local 469 and its board of directors. He
was also a member of the board of directors of the Community Concert
Association.
He was a talented musician and bugled for the local firing
squads. As a veteran of World War II, he
was a member of The American Legion Pitterle-Beaudoin
Post 189, V.F.W. Post 3709 and D.A.V. He
was a member of the Wisconsin National District Funeral Directors Association,
the Wethonkitha Club, Plattdeutscher
Verein, Optomist Club and
president of Oak Hill Cemetery Association.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lorna Hafemeister,
two daughters, Nan Marsden, New York, N.Y.; Shirley Jean, Ames, Iowa; a son-in-law,
Gary Marsden; his mother, Mrs. Herman Harder; one brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Harder; one brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert (Caroline) Arndt; his mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Hafemeister;
nieces, nephews and other relatives. He was preceded in death by his father.
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