Hasenbank, Christian Carl "Chris" 1868 - 1934

HASENBANK, HEINRICH, SCHERNER

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DEATH SUMMONS PROMINENT AKRON FARMER FRIDAY

Last Rites Held for Well- Know Residents During the Past Week

Death came to Chris. Hasenbank, a prominent and progressive farmer and stock raiser of northwest Plymouth county, last Fridays morning, August 30, 1934, at his home, after a brief illness of heart trouble and complications, at the age 66 years, 6 months and 26 days. Mr. Hasenbank had not been in the best of health for some time, but was able to do his usual work up to within about a week of his demise, and his taking away came as a shock to many of his friends who were not aware of his illness.

Christian Carl Hasenbank, son of Herr and Fran Heinrich Hasenbank, was born at Ascheberg, Holstein, Germany, February 4, 1868. As a child he was baptized in the Lutheran church. After his confirmation, at the age of fifteen years, lie entered into creamery work and continued for two years. Then he took up the required three years training in the German army, after which he resumed creamery work, continuing it until 1893, when he came to America and located at Remsen, Plymouth County, Iowa, where he was engaged in creamery work for eleven years.

On June 26, 1898, he was married to Wiebke Scherner, from Drag, Germany, and to this union were born two sons and one daughter, Arthur, Carl and Dora. In 1902 he purchased a farm northeast of Akron and moved onto it in 1905. This has since remained the family home, and the place has been brought to a high state of cultivation by its industrious and thrifty owner.

Mr. Hasenbank was a kind and devoted husband and father, a helpful neighbor and a good citizen.

He is mourned by his wife, two sons, Arthur and Carl, and one daughter, Mrs. John Huettmann, all of Akron vicinity; also by a brother in Germany, two grandchildren, and a host of friends. The community extends its sympathy to the bereaved family.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon. At 2:30 p. m. a short devotional service was conducted in the home by Rev. Theo. Meyer, of Preston township Lutheran church. At 3 o'clock the funeral service was held in, the local Immanuel Lutheran church and a sermon was preached in German by Rev. Theo. Meyer and in English by Rev. C. W. Samuelson. A quartet, comprised of Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Smikahl and Mr. and Mrs. Axel Johnson, sang three appropriate songs.

The pallbearers were Fred Claesson, Ben Hartman, John Miniets, H. H. Wetzeler, Elmer Greenleaf, Emory Neal, Henry Hitzeman and Dave Vanderham. Interment was in the new addition to Riverside Cemetery.

Relatives and friends present at the funeral from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Claus Scherner, of Kingsley, Ia.; and Mr. and Mrs. henry Scherner and son, Clarence, of Holstein, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lage and son, Alfred, of Lake Benton, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Charley Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miler and son, Edward, of Hartley, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. John Nordman, of Ellsworth, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Boge, Mrs. Mary Hansen, Mr. George Hansen, Mrs. Doris Burdoff, Mrs. Christina Nordman, Mrs. Olinda Shields and son, Ray, Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Nissen and son, Martin, Miss Mary Schemer, of Remsen, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. John Spiecker, of Storden, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lugers and daughter, Sophia, of Hawarden, Iowa; Johanna and,Herbert Lugers, of Holland Mich. Mr. and' Mrs. Fred Cassens, of Brunsville, Iowa.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, September 6, 1934
Akron, Iowa