Lawrence D. Hildebrandt
Lawrence D. “Butch” Hildebrandt, 77, Chili, brother of a Stevens Point man, died Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at Atrium Post Acute Care in Marshfield after a five-year battle with progressive supra nuclear palsy.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Marshfield, with the Rev. Eric Berns officiating. Military rites will be conducted by the American Legion Post 54 of Marshfield. Burial will be in St. Stephen’s Cemetery in Chili at a later date.
Visitation will be at the church from 9 a.m. Wednesday until the Mass.
Memorials may be designated in his name to Ministry Home
Care Hospice or Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church.
Rembs Funeral Home in Marshfield assisted with arrangements.
Condolences may be offered online at www.rembsfh.com.
Mr. Hildebrandt was born Oct. 27, 1939, in the town of
Fremont in Clark County, a son of the late Lawrence J. and Anne (Jansen)
Hildebrandt. He attended Marshfield Senior High School.
He served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1956 until his
honorable discharge in 1964.
He was married to Jo V. McNaul April 4, 1959, in
Neillsville.
He was a dairy farmer for 30 years and also was employed for
Oscar Hildebrandt Construction, Wisconsin Homes and Chili Implement.
He was a member of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Chili,
then became a member of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Marshfield.
He was also a member and past president of the Chili-Fremont
Fire Department and a member and past president of the Chili Lions Club.
Survivors include his wife, Jo; three children, Kim (Greg)
Lynn, Unity, Lori Blasini, Atlanta, Ga., and Nancy (Tom) Huray, Little Chute;
three sisters, Terry Akkerman, Wisconsin Rapids, Karen (Dale) Krasselt, Chili,
and Margaret “Peg” (David) Grimm, Arpin; four brothers, James (Barbara)
Hildebrandt, Stevens Point, Joseph (Nancy) Hildebrandt and Michael (Ruth)
Hildebrandt, both of Chili, and Thomas Hildebrandt, Marshfield; 12
grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by one son, Brian L.
Hildebrandt; and one brother, Charles Hildebrandt.