Date : 14 Jun 1944
Location : St. Mary's Cemetery, Burlington, WI
Alois H. (Dutch) Vos, 50, postmaster at Kansasville died at his home early Sunday morning. He served as assistant postmaster for 12 years before taking over as head in 1936.
Mr. Vos was born in Burlington August 8, 1893, the son of Henry and Josephine Vos. He spent his boyhood and early manhood in Burlington before answering the colors in World War I, serving on five battlefronts.
After the war he returned to his home. Two years later he entered a grocery store partnership in Springfield for two years. He and his partner, L. W. Daniels, then bought the Cox brothers grocery store in Kansasville, which they operated until three years ago when Mr. Vos retired because of ill health.
Mr. Vos was a charter member of the Ross Wilcox American Legion Post 79 and served as first commander of the Burlington post.
He was active in all civic enterprises in Kansasville and was one of the organizers of the Kansasville volunteer fire department and served as its chief.
Surviving are his wife, the former Caroline Schroeder whom he married in Chicago in 1921; two sons: Walter in the army tank corps, Camp Breckenridge. Ky., and Donald who attending merchant marine officers school; three brothers, Roman, Edmund and Cletus all of Antioch, Ill., and three sisters. Mrs. Stanley Szydlowski and Mrs. Elizabeth Oldenburg, both of Burlington, and Mrs. Lucille Feiereisen of Minneapolis.
Military funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. Wednesday in St. Mary's Catholic church in Burlington by Ross-Wilcox American Legion Post 79. Rev. J. A. Risch of Dover Will officiate. Burial will be in St; Mary's cemetery in Burlington.
Friends may call at the McCarthy funeral home until the time of the funeral.
Racine Journal Times - Jun 12, 1944
