William “Will” Fredrick Misfeldt was born August 6, 1884, in the Town of Eagle Point, Wisconsin. Will was the sixth child and fifth son of Ernest and Margaret Misfeldt.
Will met Augusta Charlotte Schroetter and they were married on October 21, 1908. Augusta was born in 1883 in Princeton, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, to Edward and Wilhelmia Zimmerman Schroetter. She had four brothers and four sisters. She preceded Will in death.
Will’s second marriage, in August of 1954, was to the former Mamie Lord.
Will had a daughter, Lynda, who married F.C. Schmidt.
At the time of his passing, Will worked for Cutting & Thompson in the City of Bloomer, Wisconsin. He died Monday, June 16, 1958, at the age of 73. Services were held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, and Will was interred in the Bloomer City Cemetery. He was survived by one grandson, William Frink.
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