Obituary

  Willey - Joseph L. Hartl, 45, mayor of Willey, died at 9 p.m. Monday, January 11, at LaPlatte, Neb., 11 miles south of Omaha. Mr. Hartl was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha after he was pinned between a truck and a loading dock at the National By-Products plant in LaPlatte.
  Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, January 14, at St. Mary church in Willey with the Rev. James Fangman officiating. Doris Peter will be lector, two nieces and two nephews, Brenda Miskimins and Carol Reinart, Mike Tigges and Jeff Hartl, gift-bearers, and Tim Grossman, Lynn Schultes and Rodney Becker mass-servers.
  Active pallbearers will be William Schechinger, Norman Anderson, Joe and Ron Berger, Art Willenborg and Robert Grossman. Willey city councilmen, Dennis Riesselman, Mark Schreck, Allan and Edward Tigges, will be honorary bearers. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
  Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral home in Carroll after 2 p.m. Wednesday. Rosaries will be recited at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. (parish) and a scriptural prayer service will be conducted at the funeral home at 8:45 p.m.
  Mr. Hartl is survived by his wife Mary Lou, Willey; a daughter Donna and a son Keith, both at home; three brothers: Otto L. Hartl, Chicago; Michael Hartl, Coon Rapids, and Robert Hartl, Dedham; four sisters: Mrs. Dwain (Mary Ann) Miskimins, Dedham; Mrs. Charles (Helen) Yager, Coon Rapids; Mrs. Roger (Rose) Becker, Willey, and Mrs. Randy (Anna Marie) Olesen, Bayard, and his mother-in-law Mrs. Clarence Reinart, Carroll.
  He was preceded in death by his parents, his father-in-law Clarence Reinart and a niece.
  Mr. Hartl was born July 31, 1936, at Dedham, a son of Otto J. and Anna Thalhammer Hartl. He spent his younger years in the Dedham and Templeton areas and attended St. Joseph school in Dedham. On June 1, 1963, he was married to Mary Lou Reinart at the former SS. Peter and Paul church in Carroll by the Rev. Msgr. Frank Greteman, now the bishop of the Sioux City Diocese.
After their marriage they lived in the Gray area, where he served as mayor from 1965 to 1967 when they moved to their present home in Willey. The same year he opened the Willey Garage, which he owned and operated until 1976. In that year he began his employment with the Carroll By-Products Co., a division of National By-Products. In 1970 he was elected mayor of Willey a position he still held at the time of his death. He was a member of St. Mary parish.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Tuesday, January 12, 1982, p. 2)