ZEILER (VETERAN KOR), FREDDIE VELBERT  - Logan County, Arkansas | FREDDIE VELBERT  ZEILER (VETERAN KOR) - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Freddie Velbert ZEILER (VETERAN KOR)

Mount Salem Cemetery
Logan County,
Arkansas

US Navy
Korea
November 23, 1930 - March 1, 2017

Freddie Velbert Zeiler, 86, of Paris, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Paris. He was born in Paris on November 23, 1930, to Frank Voett Zeiler and Mental Harger Zeiler. He was also preceded in death by his youngest and beloved daughter, Janet Gage. Freddie was honorable discharged from the United States Navy in 1954. His most significant duty assignment was aboard the USS Genesee (AOG 8) during the Korean War and he was a cook/baker. He returned to Paris where he met and eloped with his wife of 61 years, Nina Lee Zeiler. He is fondly remembered by many for his church bus ministry. He was a mechanic for several businesses and lent his expertise and skill to friends and family. He was a long-haul truck driver for a number of years in which his family joined him for many adventurous trips. He retired from Reeder-Simco. Freddie had many talents and interests including: race car building, inventing tools, songwriting, and being a musician. If he wasn't listening to music, he was making music on his guitar and writing and singing songs. He especially loved and adored his grandchildren who spent many hours with him and Nina. Fred is survived by his wife, Nina; children Freddie Zeiler and wife Joyce of Springfield; Eddie Zeiler of Fort Smith; and Lori Holt and husband Steve of Ozark; sister Betty Lux of Paris; brother, Bill Zeiler of Vian, Oklahoma; ten grandchildren, 33 great- grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Eric Zeiler, Matthew Fultz, Jared Holt, Alex Smith, Aaron Smith, and Alvin Howard. Honorary pallbearers will be caregivers and staff from Paris Health and Rehabilitation, where he lived his last seven years being loved and cared for.

Contributed on 3/21/19 by billsully060
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Submitted: 3/21/19 • Approved: 3/22/19 • Last Updated: 3/25/19 • R1261572-G0-S3

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