- Date Of Birth: July 22, 1939
- Date Of Death: October 18, 2021
- State: Idaho
Elmer F Wessels, 82 of Greencreek, Idaho, died peacefully at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center on October 7, 2021.
Elmer was born on July 22, 1939, to Albert and Magdalena (Nuxoll) Wessels, the eighth of nine children. He grew up on a farm outside of Greencreek, Idaho, where he enjoyed playing baseball and helping his dad on the farm. He went through the Greencreek school system where he graduated from Greencreek High School in 1957. After graduation, he worked in the lumber mill and drove truck for Burkeland’s. He then enlisted in the Army and spent most of his enlistment at Fort Ord and Fort Lewis before he was honorably discharged in 1960. He appreciated his time in the Army because it changed him from being a boy to a man.
After the army, he attended LCSC for two years and pitched on the LCSC’s Warriors first baseball team.
