Bogh, Chris 1883-1954

BOGH, BILLINGS, BAUERLY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/29/2008 at 20:58:23

CHRIS BOGH FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY

Despondency over poor health and other causes were blamed for the suicide of Chris Bogh, 70, retired farmer, at his home, 126 First Ave. SE, Tuesday morning.

Coroner S.H. Luken was called and found that Mr. Bogh had cut his throat with a kitchen knife. The body was discovered by Mrs. Bogh, who works at the telephone office, when she returned from work at 11 a.m.

Mr. Bogh had suffered a nervous breakdown about three years ago, and has been despondent frequently since that time.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday from the Wiltgen-Luedtke Funeral Home. Rev. James M. Ransom officiating. Burial will be in the LeMars City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time for services.

Chris Bogh, formerly a Fredonia township farmer, retired in 1930 to live in LeMars. He was born Dec. 23, 1883, and married Sigrud Billings March 6, 1907. She died March 5, 1927, and on June 24, 1945, he married Olga Bauerly, who survives him.

Also surviving are his son, Raymond Bogh on the farm near Oyens; two daughters, Mrs. John Swain, Hastings, Neb., and Mrs. Robert P. Dorr, Dubuque, Iowa; a step daughter, Mrs. W.S. Magnus, Seattle, Wash.; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Other survivors are three brothers, Peter Bogh, Garritson, S.D., Andrew Bogh of near LeMars, and Marias Bogh, Remsen; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Lassen, Sanford, N.C., Mrs. Ed Dorenbusch, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Mrs. Garrit Porte, Artesia, Calif., and a cousin, Mrs. Elmer Nunemacker of Sioux City, who was brought up in the Bogh home.

~Source: The LeMars Globe-Post, April 15, 1954

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