George William Juenger was known to our family as "Uncle Bill" and to Carmi friends as "George. He was born December 23, 1908 in White County, son of George and Elizabeth (Renschler) Juenger. He followed in the Juenger family tradition of farming and his farm was near Crossville, IL where he resided with his wife, Wanda (Armstrong), and daughter, Linda, until he retired and moved to Carmi. He visited his farm daily and at 84 he met his demise there, when he was caught between two grain wagons on September 23, 1992. He is buried at Stokes-Campbell Cemetery. His wife, Wanda, born August 19, 1911 and died March 23, 1998. Daughter, Linda Raney, grandson, Dale Raney, and grandchildren reside in Carmi.
Uncle Bill was very respectful of family history. He took family drives to show us Barth Cemetery where his parents, George and Elizabeth (Renschler) Juenger, grandmother, Maria (Stehl) Juenger Lough, great-grandparents Renschler and Graulich are buried. Having never known grandparents, we gained a respect for our family. Uncle Bill began and continued to hold the Mt. Vernon version of the Juenger Reunion. Uncle Bill attended the Washington County Juenger Reunion that had been going on for years, but he wanted to honor his grandmother who had come to the Carmi with his father and his brother, Conrad Juenger, in the 1890's. Three other brothers also came but returned to the Darmstadt area.
Uncle Bill passed on the information of his great-grandparents, Heinrich and Susanna (Koehler) coming from Deitzenbach, Germany and arriving in New Orleans in 1846. George's grandfather, George III, age three, and his sister, age eight, moved up the Mississippi River to Mud Creek to be pioneers on the Illinois prairie.
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