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Prust, Herman A. 1879-1913

PRUST, MUECKE, BECK

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/29/2013 at 16:43:42

Note: He is buried in Le Mars Memorial Cemetery.

CUT OFF IN EARLY LIFE

WELL KNOWN YOUNG BUSINESS MAN SUDDENLY STRICKEN

H. PRUST SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY

Death came suddenly to Herman A. Prust, a well known young business man of this city, on Wednesday morning at about one o’clock, caused by a stroke of apoplexy. The suddenness of the end was a great shock to his relatives and his many friends, and general expressions of regret were heard in the business places and on the street when the news of the sad event became known.

Mr. Prust was at his store on Tuesday, working hard during the holiday rush and was apparently in the best of health and spirits. In the evening, after partaking of a hearty supper, he returned up town, and on leaving the store dropped into the Brauch bowling alleys for a social game with some of his friends. While there he complained of not feeling well and said he would go and see a doctor. He walked rapidly down the street and ran up stairs into Dr. Wild’s office. As he entered the door he was stricken with apoplexy and fell unconscious. He was conveyed to his home on Cedar street on a stretcher and physicians worked in the hope of resuscitating him but with no avail. He never regained consciousness and passed away four hours after he was stricken. Some few years ago he suffered a slight stroke of a similar nature and had been warned by physicians that a recurrence might be fatal.

Herman A. Prust spent all his thrit-four years of life in this vicinity. He was born on June 23, 1879, on a farm in Hungerford township. His parents moved to Le mars when he was nine years of age, and Herman attended the public schools and later Western Union college, from which institution he was graduated. As a youth he filled a clerical position for his father. His father died shortly afterward, and heavy responsibilities devolved on Herman, left with a widowed mother and four sisters.

Mr. Purst engaged in the hardware business in 1903 with C. A. Sauer. Subsequently Henry J. Linden bought out Mr. Sauer’s interest and the firm was Prust & Linden. When the latter went west to Everett, Mr. Prust became sole owner and changed the name to the Prust Hardware Company. He erected one of the finest store rooms in the city on the corner of Eagle and Sixth streets and transferred the business from its old location in the Sauer building. He was energetic and untiring and was building up a solid business, and had one of the finest stores in Le Mars.

His domestic and family relations were of the happiest. He was united in marriage on February 4, 1904, to Miss Edith Beck, of Lincoln township, and to their union one son was born, Henry, who is now six years of age.

Besides the bereaved wife and child, he leaves to mourn his death, his mother, Mrs. Berth Prust, four sisters, Misses Louisa, Amanda, Emma and Mrs. Jacob Koenig, of this city, also tow uncles, August Prust of Le Mars, and Fred Prust, of Ceylon, Minn., and his aged grandfather, a. Muecke, of this place.

Mr. Prust was a member of the Odd Fellow and Elk lodges, of this city. He was interested and sctive in things for the good of the community and the growth of the city—was very popular especially among the younger set of business men, and was widely known and liked in the surrounding country.

The funeral servies will be held this afternoon at half past one at St. John’s Evangelical church, Rev. M. J. Dommann officiating.

The stores in the city will be closed during the hours of the funeral servies as a mark of respect to his memory.

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Saturday, December 19, 1913
Le Mars, Iowa


 

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