Anthony Alphonse Muggli

CARSON -- Anthony Alphonse Muggli, 67, Carson, died Oct. 25, 2000, at his home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Carson, with the Rev. Gary Benz officiating. Burial will be in Carson Community Cemetery.

Music will be provided by Patsy Hertz and Jackie Stewart. Serving as casket bearers will be his seven children, Timmy, Jean, CarolLee, Scott, Cindy, David and Denise.

Anthony was born Aug. 9, 1933 in Carson, to Vincent and Elizabeth (Soring) Muggli. He lived his entire life in the Carson area. He attended the Carson school, graduating in 1951. He started farming with his brothers while still in high school and farmed his entire life, except when he was in the service from 1956 to 1958. He was stationed in Germany and enjoyed touring with his army buddies when off duty.

On Oct. 28, 1961, he married Mary Banning at St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Carson. Together, they farmed and raised their children in the Carson area.

Besides his farming interest, he enjoyed trucking and the people he got to know through the years. He had a talent for mechanics and engineering and passed those interests on to his sons. He also thoroughly enjoyed his four grandchildren and was so proud of their activities.

He is survived by his wife, Mary, Carson; three sons and daughters-in-law, Timmy and Andrea, and David and Heather, all of Carson, and Scott and Cherie, Fullerton; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Jean and Michael Strahan, Montclair, N.J., and CarolLee and Bill Carruth, Oakes, and Cindy and Denise; four grandchildren, Katie, Vincent, Kurt and Max; two brothers, Leo and Vincent, both of Carson; and five sisters, Anne Shaw, Mandan, Helen Zaczkowski, St. Joseph, Minn., Theresa Deichert, Lark, Mary Muggli, Santa Fe, N.M., and Barbara Dascolas, Sylmar, Calif.

Tony was preceded in death by his parents; and one sister, Rose Weinhandl. (Hertz Brothers Funeral Home, New Leipzig)