Date : 29 Jun 1972
Location : Fort Snelling Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
Mrs. A. R. (Millie) Kesler, 75, 3815 W. 4th St., Goodview, died at 12:20 p.m. Monday at Community Memorial Hospital, after an illness of one week. She was a registered nurse at Winona General and Community Memorial Hospital retiring in 1967.
The former Amelia Breyen, she was born at St. Francis, Minn., March 14, 1897, to Theodore and Mathilda Alfs Breyen. She attended Anoka, Minn., schools and received her nurse's training at Rochester, Minn., State Hospital. On June 18, 1922, she was married to Adrian R. Kesler at Minneapolis, Minn., who has died. A member of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, she had lived in Winona 33 years.
Survivors are: two sons, Richard B., Waukesha, Wis., and David T., Bloomington, Minn.; one daughter, Mrs. David (Adrienne) Malszycki, Hastings, Minn.; nine grandchildren, and three brothers, Bernard and Lawrence Breyen, Aitkin, Minn., and Leo Breyen, Circle Pines, Minn. Two brothers and four sisters have died.
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Burke's Funeral Home, and at 10 at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, the Rev. Msgr. Joseph R. McGinnis officiating. Burial will be at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. where Msgr. McGinnis will lead the wake service at 8.
Winona Daily News - Jun 27, 1972
