Peacefully after a brief illness at St. Mary’s General Hospital with his family by his side on Thursday January 13, 2011, 87 years of age. Loving husband for 51 years to the late Maria Nietsch (nee) Klein. Dear father of Reinhard and his wife Pauline, Walter and his wife Gail, Gunther and his wife Laurie all of Kitchener and Manfred and his wife Gabrielle of Mannheim. Loving Opa to Lukas, Ashleigh, Cameron, Meaghan, Danielle, Spencer, Nicole and Michael. There will be a private family funeral and interment at Williamsburg Cemetery Kitchener.