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Fuhlendorf, Christian Gearhart (1868-1950)

FUHLENDORF, DURR, SEWELL, YOUNG, CARDIO, HAFELE

Posted By: Carl Malone (email)
Date: 5/23/2016 at 23:00:57

The Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
March 20, 1950

C. G. Fuhlendorf, In Business Here Many Years, Dies

Christian Gearhart Fuhlendorf, 81, pioneer Atlantic resident and business man, died at 4 o’clock this morning at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Christy G. Fuhlendorf, 103 East Eleventh street, with whom he resided. Mr. Fuhlendorf had been in failing health since last summer and bedfast several weeks.

He was born in Davenport Oct. 30, 1868, and came to this vicinity with his parents when he was four years old, the family locating on a farm west of Atlantic. He grew to manhood there and as a young man he was employed at the Bailey grocery here for a number of years.

Following his marriage to Elizabeth Durr, they moved to Lebanon, Mo., where he operated a bottling company. After Mrs. Fuhlendorf’s death he engaged in the bottling business in St Louis. He was married to Libbie M. Sewell in Lebanon, Mo., on May 3, 1902, and in 1914 the family moved to Atlantic, where he was engaged in the bottling business with his brother, John.

The Atlantic concern was sold in 1929 to Tyler Brothers and since then, Mr. Fuhlendorf had been associated with his son, Christy, in the electrical business here. Mrs Fuhlendorf died Oct. 4, 1927.

Surviving besides the son are two stepdaughters, Miss Madge Sewell of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Troy Young of Rochester, N. Y.; two sisters, Mrs. M. C. Cardio and Mrs. Minnie Hafele of Atlantic; a brother, John Fuhlendorf of Huntington Park, Cal., and three grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Roland, Peacock & Baxter funeral home, the Rev. Thom Fuhr officiating. The remains will be at the funeral home until the service hour and interment will be at Lebanon,

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