Hans Joseph Gehlsen

GEHLSEN, LUEDERS, BRANDT, BEHAN

Posted By: Barbara Gehlsen Nugent (email)
Date: 8/3/2011 at 16:03:35

Obituary, Sterling Daily Gazette, Thursday, 19 Jan 1967 2;3
Funeral Notice, Sterling Daily Gazette, Tuesday, Jan 24, 1967, 2;2

HANS JOSPEH GEHLSEN DIES IN HOSPITAL

LYNDON - Hans Joseph Gehlsen, 70, of Lyndon, passed away early this morning at the Morrison Community Hospital.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the St. Catherine Catholic Church of Prophetstown, the Rev. Cletus Anger officiating, with burial in the St. John's Cemetery at Savanna.

Friends may call at the Gardner Funeral Chapel, Prophetstown, Friday afternoon and evening where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m.

Hans Gehlsen was born Feb 15, 1896 in Clinton, Iowa, the son of Hans and Margaret Lueders Gehlsen. He was educated in the York township public schools and moved from Thomson to Lyndon in 1923. He married Clara Brandt May 22, 1918 in Thomson. He was a member of the St. Catherine Catholic Church of Prophetstown and the Railroad Brotherhood.

He is survived by his widow, one son, William B. Sr. of Davenport, Iowa; one daughter, June of Rock Island; five brothers, Chris of Morrison; Gustave of Vera Beach, Fla.; Raymond of Zigler; Herb of Chicago; John of West Allis, Wise.; three sisters, Mrs. Elsie McKee of Argo Fay; Mrs. Frank Remrey of Clinton, Iowa; Mrs. Elmer (Florence) Olson of Prophetstown; six grandchildren.
He was preceded by two brothers, two sisters and his parents.

FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR HANS GEHLSEN

LYNDON - Funeral services were held Saturday morning, Jan 21, for Hans Gehlsen at 10 a.m. at St. Catherine Church in Prophetstown. The Rev. Father Cletus Anger sang the requiem high mass.

Preceding the funeral service, a prayer service was conducted at Gardner's Funeral Chapel at 9:30 a.m. by a grandson, Thomas Gehlsen, a seminarian at St. Ambrose in Davenport. Hans Gehlsen was a member of St. Catherine Holy Name Society in Savanna.

Pallbearers were Lloyd Harrington, Raymond Stevens, Warren Cady, William Hummel, Ernest Verhulst and Charles Earl.

Those taking care of flowers, were Mr. and Mrs. Herb Doering, Mrs. Melvin Moore and Hillcrest Floral Shop.