Friedrichs, John (Died 1918)

FRIEDRICHS

Posted By: Plymouth CC (email)
Date: 4/5/2004 at 22:38:40

John Friedrichs, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Friedrichs, of Preston, died
Saturday morning after a brief illness with pneumonia. Mr. Friedrichs
was born twenty-six years ago in the community in which he died and had
always been held in high esteem by the people of that neighborhood.
Last summer he reported at Camp Gordon for army duty but was rejected on
account of being over weight as he weighed more than 250 pounds. He had
always appeared to be in rugged health and in recent years had been the
manager of the farm owned by his father. He is survived by four
brothers, one of whom, Herman, is in the army, and the other three, Ed,
Frank and Henry live in the northwest part of the county.

The funeral will be held this afternoon at the Preston church and will
be conducted by Rev. Meske, of Akron, as the Preston Lutheran pastor,
Rev. Meyer, is still quite weak from his recent illness.
.....this was taken from the LeMars newspaper dated 31 Dec 1918