GOPLERUD, John c1900-1947

GOPLERUD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/23/2009 at 17:16:34

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RITES SET FOR
CRASH VICTIM

Goplerud Funeral at
Osage to Be Wednesday

Osage, Iowa — Funeral of John Goplerud, 46, who was killed when his truck crashed into a ditch after skidding on ice three miles west of here Saturday morning, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Osage Lutheran Church. The Rev. T. P. Solem will officiate.

Mr. Goplerud died in a Mason City hospital where his wife has been a patient for some time with a heart ailment. She will be dismissed from the hospital Tuesday and will be permitted to attend the rites.

Mr. Goplerud, a prominent farmer of Mitchell County, was on his way to town on a business errand when the accident occurred. He suffered a brain concussion and never regained conciousness.

Besides his wife he leaves a son, Dean, who is a senior in high school; his mother, Mrs. Anna Goplerud of Osage, and two brothers, Chris, St. Ansgar, and Gerhard, Osage.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Monday, January 13, 1947]

NOTE: The newspaper erroneously spelled the surname as Gopelrud.
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#2:

Organ Dedication
Sunday at Osage

OSAGE, IOWA — A Wicks organ will be dedicated Sunday at 8 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage with a recital by Dr. Mario Salvador, outstanding organist, and presently the choir director of the new St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri. The concert is free and open to all members of the community.

The organ, to be known as the "John Goplerud Memorial Organ," was on display last summer as the recital organ at the National Guild of Organists, Highland Park, Illinois.

John Goplerud, who met death in an automobile accident in 1947, was very much interested in music, and a new church. He began a fund and after his death, his wife, Mildred, and their son, Dean, now in the medical college at University of Iowa, continued the financing of the organ and now are giving it in remembrance of their late husband and father.

Chimes have been added by Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Goplerud and family.

[Waterloo Courier, April 29, 1955]