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Carroll Times Herald, May 1996 ST. BENEDICT, Iowa—A funeral service for Virgil Raymond Bierl of St. Benedict will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 1996, at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Mr. Bierl, 78, a native of Templeton, died Monday, May 27, 1996, at Kossuth Regional Health Center in Algona. The Rev. Lynn Bruch will officiate the service. Burial will be in St. Benedict Catholic Church with military honors by Andrew American Legion Post No. 428 of Wesley, Iowa. One of 11 children of George H. and Mary (Irlmeier) Bierl, he was born March 6, 1918, in his family's farm house near Templeton and attended Sacred Heart School in Templeton. Mr. Bierl served in the Army for more than five years. He was in the 34th and 83rd Infantry Division in the U.S. and Europe during World War II. He and Irene Angeline Nieland were married Feb. 10, 1947, at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breda. Early in their marriage, the Bierl's farmed near Auburn then near Hayfield, Minn. In 1951 they assumed ownership of Bierl's Locker Plant in St. Benedict, operating it until 1981. Mr. Bierl also operated a hardware and feed business for many years. The Bierls retired in St. Benedict. Mr. Bierl was a member of a four-person country/western and polka band, named "The Harmonizers." He was also a member of St. Benedict Catholic Church, a Fourth Degree Knight of Knights of Columbus Council 952 and a member of Andrew American Legion Post No. 428 of Wesley. Survivors include his wife, Irene, of St. Benedict; two sons: Russell Bierl of Ankeny and Ronald Bierl of Nora Springs, Iowa; three daughters: Mary Grohmann of Omaha, Neb., Margaret Bowman of Waunakee, Wis., and Yvonne Hemmer of Sioux Falls, S.D.; 16 grandchildren; a sister, Irma Osterholt of Carroll. Mr. Bierl was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and five sisters.
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