Obituaries – Tuesday, April 1st 2025

Funeral Services for George Francis Gruendel, age 92, of Salem, Missouri, will be held this afternoon at 1:00 in the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Visitation for George Gruendel will be held from 11:00 in the morning until service time in the Chapel. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Healthy Dent County Prevention Coalition and may be left Wilson Mortuary. Memorial Envelopes will be available.

Funeral Services for Gary Whitaker, age 85, will be held at 11:00 in the morning on Wednesday, in the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Visitation will be held from 5:00 in the evening until 7:00 tonight, in the chapel. Burial with Military Honors will be in the Cedar Grove Cemetery. 

Funeral Services for Carter Volner, age 93, will be held at 6:00 Thursday evening at the Kutis South County Chapel in St. Louis. A Committal Service with full military honors will be at 11:30 on the morning on Friday at the Myers Cemetery in Oats, Missouri. Visitation will be at the chapel on April 3rd from 3:00 in the afternoon until service time.

Funeral services for Virgil Lee Pax of Salem, age 80, will be Friday at 11:00 at the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Visitation will be Thursday from 5:00 until 7:00. Burial with Military Honors will be at the Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Funeral services for Charles Lewis Fuhring of St. James, age 96, will be Friday at 12:00 noon at the St. James Chapel of James & Gahr Mortuary. Visitation will start at 10:00 Friday morning. Interment will be in the St. James Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the St. James Sportsclub.