KRESS, Peter 1892-1918

KRESS, BELLMER

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 9/11/2010 at 22:42:17

Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa
30 Sep 1918
Page 9

Pvt. Peter Kress Dead; Buried at Dunkerton Today

Victim of Influenza; Harold Bellmer, Also of Dunkerton, Missing in Action.

Dunkerton, Ia., Sept. 30. -- (Special.) -- Nine months from the day Harold Bellmer and Peter Kress left their homes in Dunkerton for training camps the report came to the parents of the former that he had been missing in action since Aug. 8, while to Private Kress' parents was delivered a message telling of his death at Camp Dix, N. J., of Spanish influenza.

Funeral services for Private Kress were conducted today in the Dunkerton Baptist church. Rev. R. J. Lang, pastor of First Evangelical church, Waterloo, who has been doing Y. M. C. A. work in Alabama, officiated and pallbearers were soldiers of Waterloo and vicinity who are home on furloughs. The clergyman and pallbearers were transported to this city by the Waterloo Red Cross motor corps, at the request of the local chapter.

Pupils in the Dunkerton schools took part in the funeral procession, each carrying a flag. All business was suspended during the services. Private Kress was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kress, who reside on a farm near town. The parents are advanced in years.