Knoebel, Al

KILGORE - Services for Al Knoebel, 63, of Kilgore, will be 10 a.m., Saturday, 
December 15, 2007, at Rader Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Dudley Plaisance 
officiating. Burial will follow in Danville Cemetery. Mr. Knoebel died Tuesday, 
December 11, 2007, in Tyler, Texas.

He was born February 7, 1944, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Al was a 1962 graduate of 
Waukesha High School. Mr. Knoebel served our country in the U.S. Army from 
1965-1971. He moved his family to East Texas in the early 1970s. He had been 
employed at Waukesha-Pearce since 1978.

Al is survived by his wife, Rachel Knoebel of Kilgore; mother, Helen Knoebel of 
Waukesha, Wisconsin; two sons, Bill Knoebel and his fiancé, Katheryn Pieters, 
of Dallas and David and Sherry Knoebel of Dallas; a daughter, Kelly Pritchett 
of Port St. Lucie, Florida; a grandson, Alex Knoebel of Dallas; two sisters, 
Ruthie Coles of Hallsville, Texas, and Cindy and Bill Holcomb of Palmyra, 
Wisconsin; a brother and sister-in-law, Ken and Barb Knoebel of Waukesha; and 
several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The family will receive friends at Rader Funeral Home this evening between 
6-7:30 p.m.

Please leave online condolences at www.raderfuneralhome.com

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 12/14/2007.