Alvin Wagner

GLEN ULLIN -- Alvin Wagner, 79, Glen Ullin, died Jan. 31, 1998, in Glen Ullin. Services will be 10 a.m. MST Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Glen Ullin. Burial will be in North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, rural Mandan, with military rites by Glen Ullin American Legion.

Visitation will begin at 4:30 p.m. today at Spangelo Funeral Home, Glen Ullin, where a wake service will begin at 7:30 tonight.

Alvin was born June 8, 1918, near Glen Ullin, to Anton and Frances (Kastner) Wagner. He was raised in the Haymarsh area and educated at St. Clements School.

He worked for area farmers until entering the U.S. Army, April 10, 1942. While in the service he served in the Middle Eastern Theater. He was wounded in Italy and was awarded the Purple Heart.

Alvin was discharged June 2, 1945, and returned to the Glen Ullin area. He married Eleanor Meuchel, Oct. 18, 1949, near Glen Ullin. They settled on his family farmstead and were engaged in farming and raising their family. In July 1985 they retired and moved into Glen Ullin.

He loved playing cards. Alvin entered Marian Manor Nursing Home in Glen Ullin, Jan. 9, 1998.

He was a member of Lions and served as past district governor of the organization. He was a former member of Glen Ullin American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Cal, Beulah, Jim and Dorinda, Mandan, and Jeff and Teresa, Springfield, Mo.; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Fran Thomas, Bismarck, Mary and Larry Roth, Elgin, and Donna and Loren Reimers, Hastings, Neb.; eight grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother, Clarence, Glen Ullin; and two sisters, Evangeline Wagner, Glen Ullin, and HIlary Wombold, Lacey, Wash.

He was preceded in death by his parents.