Klein, Albert Lloyd, 1912-1936

KLEIN, KLIEN, DYKSTERHUIS, BROWER

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From the Sioux County Capital, November 5, 1936:

ALBERT LLOYD KLIEN

Albert Lloyd Klein passed away on Friday morning Oct. 30, 1936 at the age of 24 years, 5 months and 8 days after a prolonged illness. Having suffered from a tumor on his brain, he underwent two operations at Omaha some time ago but a third attempt was not made to operate because they did not think the outcome would be successful. He had been confined to his bed for the past eight weeks.

He was born May 22, 1912 at Hospers, la. and has spent most of his life here except when he learned the jewelry trade in Elgin, Ill. and had a jewelry store in Inwood, Ia. and later a store in Alton before his illness.

His is survived by his mother Mrs. Grace Klien and two brothers Edson from Alton and Bernard at home. His father Ben Klein and Brother William preceded him in death. Funeral services were held at the First Reformed church at Hospers on Monday Nov. 2, Rev. M. A. Stegman officiating. Burial was in the Hospers cemetery west of Hospers.

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From the Sioux Center News, November 5, 1936:

Lloyd Klien, Hospers Jeweler, 24, Died Friday

HOSPERS: Lloyd Klien, son of Mrs. B. J. Klien, age 24, passed away Friday morning at his home after a lingering illness with gland trouble. He was a well known young man who was born and reared in Hospers. He graduated from the Hospers high school and took a course in watch repairing, and has since run a jewelry shop in Alton and Inwood until ill health compelled him to give up his work. He leaves to mourn his departure his mother, Mrs. B. J. Klien and two brothers Edsel and Bernard, and a host of relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the Reformed Church with Rev. M. A. Stegeman officiating. Interment was made in Hospers Cemetery west of town.

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From the Alton Democrat, November 6, 1936:

Lloyd Klein Passes On At Hospers

Albert Lloyd Klein, son of Mrs. B. J. Klein of Hospers, passed on Friday, October 30th, at the home of his mother in Hospers after an acute illness of some eight weeks. He was long in ill health due to a deficiency in the thyroid gland, a disease for which he had two operations. He was 24 years and 5 months old at the time of his passing.

Lloyd was born in Hospers May 22, 1912, and educated in the Hospers school, graduating from high school in 1929. The following year he went to Elgin, Ill., where he took a course in watch making and engraving. His illness developing at that time he went to Omaha for an operation and after recuperating opened a watch repair shop at Inwood. In December of last year he joined his brother, E. G. Klein, at Alton and started a repair shop in the latter’s drug store but was soon compelled to give this up and go to Omaha for a second operation. His health failed rapidly thereafter despite the loving care of his mother and family.

He is survived by his mother and two brothers, Edsko of Alton and Bernard of Hospers, who have the sympathy of community and friends in the untimely passing of the young son and brother. His father and a brother preceded Lloyd in death.

Funeral services were held Monday, Nov. 2nd, at the home and the First Reformed church, of which the young man was a member. Rev. Steveman officiated. Interment was in the local cemetery.

Among out-of-town relatives and friends at the services were D. J. De Beers of Spirit Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Grommers, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Grebin of Chancellor, S.D., Mrs. H. Buss, Sioux Falls, Mrs. Bertha Schutt and family, Maple Lake, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Foster Childress and daughter Wilma, Rock Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Brower, Sheldon.

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RESEARCH NOTES

Note that the surname spelling in the newspapers varies between Klein and Klien (sometimes in the same obit). The correct spelling is Klein, in common with the other family members.

The tombstone in the Hospers Cemetery reads:
A. Lloyd Klein
May 22, 1912
October 30, 1936

FindaGrave.com includes a photo of the tombstone. It gives his parents as Bernard Jan Klein (1876-1916) and Diena “Grace” Dyksterhuis Klein Brower (1879-1958). Two siblings listed: William Bernard Klein (1904-1926) and Edsko Gerald Klein (1906-1995). His mother married Dick J. Brouwer/Brower in 1948.

His death certificate gives his full name, Albert Lloyd Klein; parents, Ben J. Klein and Grace Dyksterhuis, both born in the Netherlands; last worked as a jeweler April 1934, after 1 year in this occupation; informant Edsko Klein, Alton; died at 8:30 a.m. October 30, 1936; cause: “A cyst in Pituitary Body which caused other portions of the brain to cease functioning”; contributory cause, uremic poisoning; the pituitary cyst was partly removed in an operation March 17th, 1936.