Edward Fessler

Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 11, 2007 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

Funeral services: Monday, March 12, 2007 at 11:00 am at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.

Interment: will follow in the Eastern Montana Veterans Cemetery in Miles City with full Military Honors provide by VFW post #1579.

Edward Lewis Fessler, age 88, of Miles City, Montana, passed away on March 8, 2007 at Joyces Adult Foster Care Home in Miles City.

Edward Lewis Fessler was born January 17, 1919, in Miles City, MT, the oldest in a family of four children. As a child, Edward helped on the farm. When he was unable to finish high school, Edward went to work in the coal mines two miles from home, where he earned a dollar a day and one month he received a saddle for wages. In January he went back to high school and finished his second year. In 1936, Edward got a job in a gold mine in western Montana up by Yellowstone. In 1937 he met Ed Tredway and they went to Alma, CO to work in the gold mines there. Edward worked there in 1938,then came back to Miles City to finish high school. After Edward graduated in 1940, he went to Bible School in Minneapolis, MN, from 1940 to the spring of 1941. World War II broke out December 7, 1941, so on February 11, 1942; Edward went into the army until December 9, 1945, where he was in the Signal Corp.

After Edward returned from the war and while Cleo was on Christmas vacation, the two met. They became engaged and were married May 23, 1946. They had three children, Dale Edward, Marjorie Phyllis and Kathy Joy. The Fesslers have been living on their farm (just NE of) Miles City, MT since October 1956 to the present time. Edward helped construct the Miles City Rendering Plant in the summer of 1947. After this he went to work for Earling Construction in 1948 building houses. Edward was in charge of doing the finish carpentry work on the houses. In the spring of 1951 Cleo and Edward went to Missouri and bought a farm. They moved back to Miles City, Montana, in August and Edward went to work for the VA Hospital. He worked to help build the hospital and continued to work as their full time carpenter. Edward finally retired from the VA to their farm in the Yellowstone Valley east of Miles City, Montana.

Edward was an excellent marksman and enjoyed hunting, shooting and also carpentry work. He was a member of the Gideons and liked to study the Bible. Edwards greatest pride was his family and especially his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife; Cleo of Miles City, MT, his son, Dale Edward Fessler and his wife Sharon, of Williston, North Dakota, two daughters, Marjorie Phyllis and her husband Charles Nelson, of Sturgis, South Dakota, and Kathy Joy and her husband Bill Alderman, of Sheridan, Wyoming, nine grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren and a brother EugeneFessler of Tongue River. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Perry, a sister Elizabeth and a son-in-law, SpencerDamm.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 11, 2007 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery with full military rites provided by VFW Post 1579. Friends may send condolences to the family by visiting www.stevensonandsons.com. Should friends desire, memorials may be sent to the Gideons or to the Child Evangelism Fellowship.