SEFERT, William Carl 1872-1940

SEFERT, LEMBRICK, HANSEN, LUBINS, JAHNEL, HAMRY, HUARTSEN, BERNSTEIN, MEYER, ZEMKE

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 9/17/2012 at 20:09:56

WILLIAM SEFERT INTERRED IN CARPENTER CEMETERY

Funeral services were conducted from the First Lutheran church for William C. Sefert of Minneapolis on January 20,1940, the Reverend O.A. Langehough officiating. Burial was made in the Carpenter cemetery.

William Carl Sefert was born March 8, 1872, in Jefferson, Wisconsin, eldest son of Julius and Minnie Sefert. He was one of a family of seven sisters and two brothers. At an early age, his parents moved to a farm near Carpenter, Iowa, and a few years later his father opened a general store in Carpenter. At first clerking in his father's store and later assuming ownership, William Sefert was widely known throughout this territory for 25 years as a courteous, fair-dealing merchant, always interested in the advancement of his community.

In 1894 he married Elizabeth Lembrick of Helenville, Wisconsin. To this union were born two children, a daughter, Lottie died in infancy, and a son, Bruce, now a resident of Minneapolis.

In 1917 the wife, Elizabeth, was stricken with pneumonia and died. The father and nine-year son moved to Hampton, Iowa, to live with relatives and there in 1919, he was married to Lonia Jahnel of Osage, Iowa, who for the past twenty one years has been the faithful wife of the deceased and a devoted mother to the son.

In 1920 the family moved to Austin, Minn., and entered in the occupation of farming until 1928 when he again opened a grocery store in that city. In 1936 he retired from business and moved to Brainerd, Minn., intending to live the remaining years of his life in comfort and with the opportunity of out of doors life. Becoming restless in this inactivity, however, he yearned again for a store and so purchased one in Brainerd. There, in January of last year, he was stricken with illness and forced to sell the store. In May he moved with his wife to make his home with his son. There he died on Wednesday of last week after an illness of three days. He would have been 68 years of age on March 8.

Besides the wife and son, there survive seven sisters: Mrs. Henry Hansen of St. Ansgar, Mrs. Fred Lubins of St. Paul, Mrs. R.E. Hamry of Kindred, N.D., Mrs. Dell Huartsen of Roseau, Minn., Mrs. Bert Bernstein of Gatzke, Minn., Mrs. Emma Meyer of Marble Rock, Iowa, and Mrs. A. Zemke of Denver, Colorado.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Charles of Carpenter, Iowa.

St. Ansgar Enterprise