Kohler, WI \u2013 Michael W. Kessel, 58, beloved husband of Cheryl M. (Menzies) Kessel, passed away suddenly in Milwaukee, WI on March 21, 2020, on his way home to be with his family and his newborn grandson Lukas Michael.<\/p>\n
Mike was born in Sydney, Australia, to Rolf Kessel and the late Edith (Erlenmayer) K\u00fchnle. Raised and educated in Gr\u00fcnbach, Germany, he received his degree in Master Industrial Manufacturing Engineering at Schule Fuer Giessereifachleute in Pforzhein, Germany.\u00a0 A the time of his passing, Michael was employed at Kohler Co. as a Principal Automation Engineer in the Global Faucets Division.<\/p>\n
Mike traveled all over the world with his career and during those travels, met his wife Cheryl, settling\u00a0 down in Bradford, MA and raising his three children. Mike was proud of his German roots, visiting his relatives in Germany often, both with his family and work. Mike became a US citizen in 2009, receiving a perfect score on his U.S. Citizen Test, an accomplishment that he would not let you forget.<\/p>\n
Mike was an amazing husband and father, always putting the needs of his family above his own.\u00a0 His greatest joy in his life was spending time with his children at different activities and sporting events, whether it was attending a horse show with his two daughters or watching his son\u2019s accomplishments on the\u00a0 football field and basketball courts.\u00a0 Mike also enjoyed going on long walks with his wife and their beloved Pit-bull Ruby. He had an intense passion for cars, and loved driving and racing the different Porsches that\u00a0 he owned over his lifetime. He participated in auto cross events and races where ever he lived. In addition, he spent many \u201cvacations\u201d in Naples, FL at his properties, working on different\u00a0 projects or just enjoying the warm weather. Mike was able to fix anything given to him, he would just need to look at it and he knew what to do. He was also an avid reader,\u00a0 loved music and attending rock concerts, watching the Patriots and cooking German food. Mike lived more in just the past year than some live in a lifetime\u2026He watched his oldest daughter graduate from college, met his first grandson, spent weeks with his family in Germany, including much cherished\u00a0 time with his\u00a0 beloved father and\u00a0 brother Christoph,\u00a0 traveled to FL\u00a0 to be with his youngest daughter on many occasions, (who he hoped to see graduate in the Spring), raced in an auto cross on his birthday\u00a0 and even climbed the Great Wall of China. \u00a0He was a man with so many passions and \u00a0he will be greatly \u00a0missed by all that\u00a0 knew and \u00a0loved him.<\/p>\n
Mike will be \u00a0missed and lovingly remembered by his wife of 25 years, Cheryl M (Menzies), his son, Ian J. Kessel of Bradford, MA,;\u00a0 his daughters, Mariah V. Kessel of Ft. Myers, FL,; Michaela E. Kessel of Nashua, NH, his grandson, Lukas Michael,; his mother in law, Valerie Menzies Murphy of Bradford, MA.\u00a0 His father, Rolf Kessel and step mother, Barbara Kessel of Niefern, Germany, \u00a0step father Gerhardt Humel of Pforzheim, Germany. He is also survived by his siblings, Christoph Kessel and his wife Valeria of Pforzheim, Germany,; Philip Kessel of Konstanz, Germany,; Stephanie Kessel-Mikoschek and her husband Gregor of Millingen aan de Rijn, Netherlands,; Julia Kessel of Stuttgart, Germany,; Angela M\u00fcller of Pforzheim, Germany,; Karina Straub and her husband Stefan of Bad Wilbad, Germany, and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Due to the ongoing health crisis and most of his family living out of the country,\u00a0 a Celebration of his Life will be held at a later date. This notice will be published again at such times that the date are known.\u00a0 Arrangements are by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or\u00a0Comeau Funeral Home<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kohler, WI \u2013 Michael W. Kessel, 58, beloved husband of Cheryl M. (Menzies) Kessel, passed away suddenly in Milwaukee, WI on March 21, 2020, on his way home to be with his family and his newborn grandson Lukas Michael. Mike was born in Sydney, Australia, to Rolf Kessel and the late Edith (Erlenmayer) K\u00fchnle. Raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}