Albert Templin

Albert "Al" B. Templin, age 82, of Altoona, Wisconsin died on Monday, May 26, 2025, at Mayo Clinic Health System – Eau Claire.

Al was born on January 31, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois and was adopted as an infant by the late Albert Conrad and Edna Rose (Judkins) Templin. He was a 1961 graduate of Knox High School in Indiana. Out of high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and did a hardship tour of duty in Thule, Greenland. He met his one and only sweetheart, Judith A. Schneider, after returning from Greenland, and they married in 1964. His first job was at Control Data in Bloomington, Minnesota. He went on to attend Normandale Junior College in Minneapolis, then completed his bachelor's degree in business at the University of Minnesota. He also went through medical school - on his way from one side of campus to the other.

Al and Judy were married in Beardsley, Minnesota and, over the course of their 61 years of marriage, they moved 17 times. It's a good thing they owned a moving company: Eau Claire Moving & Storage, an Atlas Van Lines agency they established in 1989. Al retired in 1996 but remained involved until the company was sold in 2020.

Al will be remembered for his tremendous work ethic (often outworking kids half his age), his love for family and children - not just his own - (earning him the nickname "Big Al, the kiddies' pal"), his love of music (especially polka) and sports (as a player, a fan, and cheering grandpa), and above all his infectious sense of humor. He believed life was a balance of hard work and good fun.

He is survived by wife, Judy of Altoona; son and daughter-in-law, Albert Jeffrey and Anne-Marie Templin, of St. Michael, Minnesota; daughter and son-in-law, Andrea Jennifer Templin and Abubaker Hamad, of Bismarck, North Dakota; grandsons Brett (fiancé, Samantha Strout), Tyler and Jake Templin, and Ibrahim Hamad, as well as many "adopted" children and grandchildren; sister, Jacqueline Mary Fayman of Little Rock, Arkansas; and many precious in-laws, nieces, nephews, friends and neighbors who were so loyal in visiting and keeping in touch over the years.

Al was preceded in death by his parents and his brother-in-law, Donald Paul Fayman.

The family extends a special thank you to all the excellent staff and doctors at Mayo Clinic Health System and Cambridge Senior Living.

Memorial service will be held 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at Saving Grace Lutheran Church (3735 Jeffers Road, Eau Claire) with Pastor David Irgens officiating. Visitation will be from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening at Evergreen Funeral Home (4611 Commerce Valley Road, Eau Claire). Interment will be in the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Spooner, Wisconsin at a later date. Evergreen Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the family.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to either the: Wounded Warrior Project woundedwarriorproject.org, Tunnel to Towers Foundation www.t2t.org, or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital www.stjude.org .

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