KROLL, Carl Ludwig 1865-1920

KROLL, KNUDSEN, WEILAND

Posted By: Bobbie Knudsen (email)
Date: 12/9/2009 at 09:21:18

Newspaper clipping
Aug. 14, 1920

Carl L. Kroll, Absent 20 Years, Dies 3 Hours After Coming Home

Carl L. Kroll, 54, reared to manhood in Waterloo, died at 4 a.m. today at the home of his sister, Mrs. J.C. Knudsen, 205 Williston avenue, three hours after he arrived in the town of his boyhood. He had been absent 20 years. Death was due to inflammatory rhuematism, from which he suffered two years.

For the past 20 years he had been located at Estelline, S.D. Feeling that death was near, he asked to be brought home, and was accompanied to this city by J.P. Montag and R.E. Kean, friends with whom he resided. He arrived at 1 a.m. and death occurred a short time later after relatives had been summoned to meet him.

Carl Kroll was born in Germany and came to Waterloo with his parents when a small boy. He is the first of a large family of early residents of this city to die. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kroll, 127 Jefferson street, and the following brothers and sisters; Mrs. Minnie Knudsen, Mrs. F.W. Weiland, F.C. Kroll, Waterloo; George and Louis Kroll, Chicago; Emil Kroll, Davenport.

Funeral services will be Monday afternoon at the O'Keefe & Towne funeral home, Rev. J.C. Askins in charge. Burial in Elmwood.