114 Riverside

Stalag Luft I

A service is planned for Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 11 a.m. at Walsh Funeral Home, Roscommon, to be officiated by Mary Beth Brady and Nancy Bresette. Visitation will be Monday from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Higgins Lake, with full military honors provided by Charles M. Engel VFW Post #4159. Memorial donations may be made to Amicare Hospice, 201 Meadows Dr., Suite A, Grayling, MI 49738.
Mr. Wiedman was born in Manchester May 8, 1921, to Albert and Mary (Braun) Wiedman. He moved to Higgins Lake in 1989 from Ypsilanti after spending summers at the lake since 1967.
He and the former Mary Ellen Needham were united in marriage June 7, 1944, in Pueblo, CO. He worked as a salesman for Gene Butman Ford Sales in Ypsilanti for 20 years and retired in 1979. He was a member of the Saline Junior Chamber of Commerce, Ypsilanti 20 Club and the Roscommon Rotary Club, and was past president of the Saline Jaycees.
Mr. Wiedman served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was captured and held nine months in Stalag Luft #1, a German prisoner of war camp.
Preceding him in death were two sisters, Anna Thorsby and Caroline Hotzel; and granddaughter, Lauren Elizabeth O’Brien.
Surviving Mr. Wiedman are his wife, Mary Ellen; three daughters, Nancy Ellen and husband Charles Pagani of Medford, OR, Catherine Core and husband Thomas Alexander of Midland, and Jacqueline Bea and husband Thomas O’Brien of Roscommon; seven grandchildren; two great-grandsons; and nieces, nephews and cousins.

Oakwood Cemetery
Higgins Lake, MI