Services Set for Worker Killed in Paper Mill Fire

Jon M. Maus, age 50 of Albany, died from a work related accident on Monday, May 28, 2012 in Sartell, Minnesota.  

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11a.m. Friday, June 1 at Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Albany with Rev.Tony Andrade officiating and Rev. Michael Naughton, O.S.B. concelebrating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at the Seven Dolors gymnasium in Albany. Parish prayers will be at 5 p.m. Thursday evening.

Jon Michael Maus was born July 26, 1961 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Lloyd and Marlene (Wenning) Maus. He was a 1979 graduate from Hill-Murray High School in St. Paul. On April 11, 1987 he married Lucy Ohmann at Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Albany. Jon worked at Stone Container in St. Cloud for many years before taking over the family farm. While farming, he also worked at the Verso Paper Mill in Sartell for the last nine years. He was a member of Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Albany, Catholic Order of Foresters, and United Steel Workers 274.

Jon enjoyed NASCAR, farming, attending his sons' motocross events and spending time with his family at the lake.

Survivors include his wife, Lucy Maus of Albany; loving father of four children, Anthony, Philip, Olivia, and Veronica Maus all at home; parents, Lloyd and Marlene Maus of St. Paul; brother, Scott (Jerrielynn) Maus of Kingsland, GA; sister, Jodi (Dean) Lingenfelter of Hudson, WI; grandmother, Genevieve Wenning of Albany; father and mother-in-law, Eugene and Virginia Ohmann of Albany; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers and sisters-in-law, and friends.

Jon was preceded in death by his grandparents, Martin and Hildegard (Bates) Maus and Al Wenning; uncles and aunt, Leander Maus and Luella and Leo Bredeck.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.