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Jerome Leo Wuebben

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Birth	:	29 Sep 1927 Saint Helena, Cedar County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	6 Mar 2012 USA
Burial	:	Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.9007988, -97.3927994
Description	:	Jerome Wuebben, a U.S. Army veteran and long-time employee of Gurney's Seed and Nursery, died on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. He was 84. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, 2012, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Yankton, with the Rev. Dan Smith and Rev. Dan Guenther officiating. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton with military graveside rites by Ernest Bowyer VFW Post #791 Honor Guard and SDARNG, Sioux Falls, SD. Visitations will begin at 5 PM, Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory, Yankton with... Read More	Jerome Wuebben, a U.S. Army veteran and long-time employee of Gurney's Seed and Nursery, died on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. He was 84. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, 2012, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Yankton, with the Rev. Dan Smith and Rev. Dan Guenther officiating. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton with military graveside rites by Ernest Bowyer VFW Post #791 Honor Guard and SDARNG, Sioux Falls, SD. Visitations will begin at 5 PM, Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory, Yankton with 7 PM rosary followed by a 7:30 PM Scripture Service. A final visitation will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Pallbearers will be his grandsons: Michael, Matthew and Christopher Amon, James, Jeremy, Benjamin, Nicholas and Eric Wuebben, and Brian Pauling. Jerome Leo Wuebben was born Sept. 29, 1927 in a farmhouse near St. Helena, Neb. He was the third child of 10 for Bernard and Josephine (Weber) Wuebben, who grew a number of crops and raised livestock on about 240 acres. They were descendants of one of St. Helena's founding families. Jerome attended school through the eighth grade at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in St. Helena. He then worked full-time on the farm with his father, often traveling to Sioux City to sell livestock. He was drafted into the Army in July 1945, shortly before the end of World War II. After basic training in Missouri, he served more than a year at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash. He returned home to Nebraska to work on the family farm in 1947. After his father's death in 1948, he formed a partnership called Josephine Wuebben and Sons with his mother and older brother, Clarence, to manage the family's livestock business. He married Audrey Kleinschmidt of Menominee, Neb. on June 3, 1953 in St. Boniface Catholic Church. They soon moved to Yankton, where he worked at Thompson lumberyard and as a construction worker. The couple had five children, with whom Jerome enjoyed fishing and hunting. "Dad was a happy-go-lucky man who devoted his life to his family," said his daughter, Linda Pauling. In 1958, he began a 38-year career at Gurney's in downtown Yankton, much of it as a foreman leading the company's maintenance unit. He then worked for Shur-Co in Yankton until he retired. In 1984, Jerome discovered a box of World War II-era hand-grenades behind his Yankton home. He had followed a kitten to a hole beneath his garage and looked inside, thinking he would find a litter. Instead, he found the grenades, which police took and disposed of. The story was picked up by wire services and generated headlines in newspapers across the world. In his later life, Jerome enjoyed seeing his brothers and sisters at family reunions and spending time with his 13 grandchildren. He watched many of his grandchildren's baseball games, recounted to them tales of his military service and farm life, and taught them to chop wood for the old-fashioned furnace he used to heat his house on Cedar Street. His grandson, Christopher Amon, said he had a stable of recurring jokes for his grandchildren, including asking "What color was George Washington's white horse?" and tricking them into thinking he had 11 fingers. "He was known for his one-liners," said Jerome's son, Richard Wuebben. "He always had a good joke to tell." For the past six years, Jerome lived at the Avera Yankton Care Center, where he died. Jerome is survived by his wife of 58 years, Audrey; his five children: Linda Pauling of Albertville, Minn.; Kenneth and Randa Wuebben of Yankton; Mary and Robert Amon of Yankton; Ronald Wuebben of Yankton; and Richard and Ellyn Wuebben of Sioux Falls; 13 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three brothers: Clarence Wuebben of Edon, Ohio; Gerald Wuebben of Gayville; and Francis Wuebben of Sioux Falls; four sisters: Loretta Leise of Englewood, Colo.; Helen Carlson of Wausa, Neb.; Roseanne Kleinschmidt of Wausa, Neb.; and Clara Dodson of Collinsville, Okla.; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Leona and Hilaria. Obituary & Photo is from The Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory

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Jerome Leo Wuebben's memorial is located at: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, USA.
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Jerome Leo Wuebben death on 6 Mar 2012 in USA
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Latitude: 42.9007988
Longitude: -97.3927994

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