Bill had spent only a week of the two month stay he had planned to enjoy with friends in Florida. Because he had never been sick and never complained to his many fiends, his death was a great shock.
Bill operated the bakery on the north side of the lake, now run by his half-brother, Erich Kohler, for 30 years, before he built the one on U.S. 41 in Cook, which he operated for the past five years.
Zieger was a member of the American Legion posts at Cedar Lake and Crown Point, and belonged to the Lake Masonic Lodge, No. 157, in Crown Point. He was also a member of the Scottish Rite, 32nd Degree of Chicago of the Shrine on Medinah Temple, Chicago.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Hadland, of Elmwood Park, Ill; three brothers, August Zeiger of Land-O-Lakes, Wis., Erich Kohler of Crown Point, and Peter Kohler of Chicago; two sisters, Mrs. Alma Radke of Tracy, Minn., and Mrs. Lee Zerr, of Chicago, and one grandson.
The body arrived at the Merriman Funeral Home in Crown Point on Tuesday where friends were able to call in the evening. Services were conducted from the funeral home on Wednesday at 2 p.m. by the associate minister of the Crown Point Presbyterian Church. Rev. Jay Confair and the Masonic Lodge No. 157. Burial was in Maplewood cemetery in Crown Point.
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