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Note: Wiesner - German: habitational name for someone from a place called Wiesen, or topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, a derivative of Middle High German wise meadow. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
OBITUARY - FRANCIS J. "FRANK" WIESNER Francis J. "Frank" Wiesner, 88, 515 W. 30th, died Friday, December 20, at St. John Rest Home, Victoria. He was born November 26, 1903, in Hays, to A. A. "Anthony" and Ida (Kern) Wiesner. He married Leoba Brungardt May 15, 1934, at Omaha, Nebraska. He worked for his father at the Wiesner Department Store while in school in college. He then established Wiesner Furniture and Appliance, Inc. at 805 Main in 1937. He retired in 1974. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and active in the Hays Senior Citizens Center. Survivors include his wife, St. John Rest Home, Victoria; two sons, James Alexander, Aurora, Colo; and Frank Aloysius, Brighton, Colo; two daughters, Donna Lee Giebler, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Patricia Ann Staab, Littleton, Colo; a sister, Melvina Basgall, Overland Park; and 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Frances Scherr; five brothers, Joe, Lawrence, Alfred, Leo and Tony; and a sister, Anna Baier. Services will be at 10 a.m., Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 215 W. 13th, with Father Paulinus Karlin officiating; burial in the church cemetery. There will be a vigil service at 9 tonight at Cline's Mortuary of Hays, 22nd and Canterbury. Visitation is until 9 tonight and from 8 a.m. until the time of service Monday at the mortuary. The family suggests memorials to the donor's choice.
Rocky Mountain News (CO) - December 29, 1991 - FRANCIS J. WIESNER , 88, of Victoria, Kan., died there Dec. 20. Services and burial were held in Kansas. Mr. Wiesner , a native of Hays, Kan., owned a furniture and appliance store. Survivors include his wife, Leoba; two sons, James of Aurora and Frank of Brighton; two daughters, Donna Giebler of Scottsbluff, Neb., and Patricia Staab of Littleton; a sister, Melvina Basgall of Overland Park, Kan.; 12 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
In 1958 or 1959, Frank built a lake house next to Cedar Bluff Lake in Kansas. The family enjoyed many pleasurable times water skiing and swimming at the lake.
Prior to World War II, Frank sold Maytag washing machines at his appliance store in Hays, Kansas. During The Great Depression in the 1930s most people couldn't afford to buy this luxury labor-saving machine. To help, Frank would install a machine in a customer's home with a coin machine attached to the washing machine. When the family wanted to do a load of laundry, they would pay with coins in the coin machine. The accumulated money was applied toward the purchase of the washing machine.
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