Services for Emil Feucht are at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at Apostolic Christian Church in Lester, Iowa, with the church ministers officiating. Burial will follow at the Apostolic Christian Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 8:30 p.m. at the Apostolic Christian Fellowship Hall in Lester with the family present from 3 to 5 and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Emil Feucht, 94, Hills, died Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, at Tuff Memorial Home in Hills.Emil William Feucht was born to Carl and Pauline (Knobloch) Feucht on Nov. 4, 1908, south of Lester. When he turned 21 years old in 1929, he started farming with his brother, Ben. They farmed together for seven years. In 1936, he farmed in Minnesota and in the spring of 1937 he went into the hatchery business in Lester. He married Ruby Sexe on Nov. 20, 1937, in Hills. The couple lived in Lester. The couple bought a farm northwest of Hills in 1942 and farmed there until retirement in 1978. They also rented land in South Dakota, which they eventually bought. During his farming years he did custom work for the neighbors in the area, baling hay, combining and windrowing. They moved to Hills in 1987. In the fall of 2001 they moved to Tuff Village in Hills. He moved to Tuff Memorial Home in August 2003. Mr. Feucht hobbies included tilling gardens, planting lawns, witching water, and fishing and camping. He was noted for his big bountiful gardens.Survivors include his wife, Ruby Feucht, Hills; four children and their spouses, RoseAnn (Tom) Srader, Pensacola, Fla., Jerry (Judi) Feucht, Lester, Ronald (Sandra) Feucht, Hills, and Marlene (Paul) Stueven, Welcome; 15 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Paul Feucht, Canton, S.D., John Feucht, Elgin, Ill., and Raymond Feucht, Lester; and two sisters, Emma Gerber, Lester, and Pauline Schick, Washington, Ill.Mr. Feucht was preceded in death by his parents, one granddaughter, Tanya Stueven, six brothers, August, Sam, Alfred Ernest, Ben and Carl Feucht, and three sisters, Martha Wagenbach, Lydia Mogler and Emilia Banwort. Roste Funeral Home, Hills, is in charge of arrangements.
