David E. Schwoerer
January 25, 1953 - October 01, 2025
Obituary
MOUNT HOREB - David E. Schwoerer, age 72, of Mount Horeb, passed away on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. He was born on January 25, 1953, in Monroe, the son of Edward and Clara (Bindl) Schwoerer.
David graduated from Mount Horeb High School in 1971. He worked as a dairy farmer all his life, working alongside his father.
David enjoyed playing slow pitch softball with Jacques team and participating in a bowling league during his younger years. He also liked hunting with his nephews, brothers and his father. David was an avid Packers and Brewers fan and had a special fondness for Western movies. He was a longtime member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church and served as an usher. David enjoyed spending time with family and friends and was always willing to help others.
David is survived by his siblings, Judy Gericke, Dennis (Rose) Schwoerer, Glenn Schwoerer, Alice Bertelrud, Lois Herfel and Jane (Melvin) Dosch; nephews and nieces, Matthew, Shawn (Rich), Chris (Nicki) , Dan (Sharon), Lindsay, Cortney, Casey (Michael), Leah (Ryan) and Hannah; and great-nieces and great-nephews, Evan, Sophie, Brynliegh, Emberliegh, Molly, Clara and Andrew; along with many cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edward and Clara Schwoerer; brothers-in-law, Jerry Gericke and Dean Bertelrud; nephew-in-law, Tyler Hanson; and great-niece, Charliegh; many aunts, uncles and cousins; and a close friend of the family, David Lange.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at ST. IGNATIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH, 109 S. Sixth St., Mount Horeb, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, with Father Singareddy Prabhakar presiding. Visitation will be held at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of the Mass on Wednesday. Private family burial will be held at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Cemetery at a later date.
Special thanks to everyone who has provided assistance to David throughout his many years.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The American Cancer Society or to the charity of your choice.
God Made a Farmer
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker" - so God made a Farmer. God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board" - so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it" - so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours" - so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place-so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark." It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does" - so God made a Farmer. - Paul Harvey
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