Walter Wildenberg
1875 - 1954 (79 years)-
Name Walter Wildenberg Born 14 May 1875 Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin 
Gender Male Baptism 14 May 1875 St John Nepomucene Church, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Died 31 Jul 1954 Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Buried St John Cemetery, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin - New/5/51
Person ID I4515 Little Chute Genealogy Last Modified 4 Jan 2014
Father William Peter Wildenberg, b. 05 May 1849, Vessem, Noord Brabant, Netherlands , d. 13 May 1940 (Age 91 years) Mother Antonette Roosen, b. 12 Sep 1855, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 07 May 1926, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 70 years) Married 04 May 1871 St John Nepomucene Church, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Family ID F121 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Katherine Verkuilen, b. 19 Aug 1884, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 07 Nov 1951, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 67 years) Married 11 Sep 1901 St John Nepomucene Church, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Children 1. John G Wildenberg, b. 06 Feb 1902, Chili, Clark Co, Wisconsin , d. 19 Apr 1973, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 71 years)2. Ann M Wildenberg, b. 07 Mar 1903, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 08 Feb 1964, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood Co, Wisconsin (Age 60 years)3. Josephine Wildenberg, b. 12 Apr 1904, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 22 Feb 2004, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 99 years)4. Raymond William Wildenberg, b. 03 May 1905, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 01 Oct 2002, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 97 years)5. Edward Arthur Wildenberg, b. 01 Jul 1908, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 15 Feb 1909 (Age 0 years)6. Clarence Wildenberg, b. 01 Aug 1909, d. 04 May 1915 (Age 5 years) 7. Arthur A Wildenberg, b. 05 May 1910, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 17 Jan 1994, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 83 years)8. Martin Aloysius Wildenberg, b. 30 Aug 1911, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 02 Apr 1986, Kimberly, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 74 years)9. Peter A Wildenberg, b. 29 Dec 1912, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 25 Nov 1999 (Age 86 years)10. Ralph Joseph Wildenberg, b. 30 May 1915, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 30 Jul 2002, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 87 years)11. Mildred Mary Wildenberg, b. 06 Sep 1917, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 16 Jul 2014 (Age 96 years)12. Virginia Wildenberg, b. 25 Feb 1919, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 20 Aug 2013 (Age 94 years)13. Nelda A Wildenberg, b. 19 Apr 1920, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 11 Nov 2001, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 81 years)14. Owen Walter Wildenberg, b. 07 Apr 1924, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 10 May 2011 (Age 87 years)15. Merin George Wildenberg, b. 03 Mar 1926, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin , d. 31 Jan 2006, Neenah, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin (Age 79 years)Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 Family ID F1567 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Walter Wildenberg, 79, 701 W. Main street, Little Chute, died at 11:45 Saturday morning in Appleton after a short illness. He was born May 15, 1875, in the town of Vandenbroek. He lived in Little Chute all his life.
Funeral services will be held at St. John Catholic church, Little Chute, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the Verkuilen Funeral home, Little Chute, after 7 o'clock tonight. The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 8 o'clock tonight.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. William Behling, Marion, Mrs. George Weyenberg, Kaukauna, Mrs. Sylvester Langedyke, Little Chute, Mrs. Gerald Smith, Neenah, and Miss Nelda Wildenberg, at home; eight sons, John, Peter, Martin and Merin, all of Little Chute; Ray and Gwen, Appleton and Ralph, Kimberly; one brother, Henry, Stanley, Wis., 35 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. - Veterans in Industry
20-Mile Walk Daily is Part of His Regular Job
1935
(Editor's Note: This is the twenty-third of a series of articles picturing and describing veteran employes in Appleton industrial and mercantile establishments.)
Though Walter Wildenberg has seen 43 years of service at the Kimberly Clark Paper mill at Kimberly, he feels as fit as the day he turned 40, he claims. He attributes his good health to the some 20 miles he walks each day checking the fire fighting equipment at the Kimberly plant. Mr. Wildenberg is known as the fire chief at the plant and his duty is to see that the pumps, hoses, valves and extinguishers are always ready for use in time of emergency.
He has worked at the plant since 1903. He left the plant to go farming after a big fire at the plant in 1901 when Fire Chief Anderson of Appleton met his death. After a year and a half on the farm he returned to the mill. After working in the paper sorting room and carrying out the duties of mill wright until 1920 he was given the position of fire chief. A crew of more than 30 men has been trained by him to respond instantly to any fire alarm.
The disaster of 1927 was recalled by Mr. Wildenberg who says he narrowly escaped serious injury or death in the cave-in of a portion of the plant. He had been fixing a valve and left the section of the mill a few seconds before the crash to get a wrench.
He resides at Little Chute with his wife. The couple have had 15 children, 10 sons and five daughters. Two of the sons are dead.
Each summer with the help of his sons he keeps a large garden near his home.
- Walter Wildenberg, 79, 701 W. Main street, Little Chute, died at 11:45 Saturday morning in Appleton after a short illness. He was born May 15, 1875, in the town of Vandenbroek. He lived in Little Chute all his life.