Ira Gordon Fetterhoff (1902-1918)

FETTERHOFF

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/25/2017 at 16:43:25

From Nevada Evening Journal December 6, 1918 (front page)

OBITUARY OF IRA FETTERHOFF

Young Man Was Just Rounding Out His School Career.

Ira Gordon Fetterhoff was born in Grant township, Story county, January 25, 1902, and died December 1, 1918, at 12:30 p. m. at his home in Nevada at the age of 16 years, 10 months and 6 days. He leaves to mourn his loss his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fetterhoff, two brothers, Alvin and Harold and one sister Sylvia.

He has lived in or near Nevada almost all of his life with the exception of six years when the family lived in Salem, South Dakota. He has attended the public schools of Nevada for the last six years and at the time of his death was member of the senior class in the high school. He was an attendant of the Methodist church.

Brief services were held on Thursday afternoon at the home at 2:00 o'clock Rev. F. H. Shick officiating and interment was made in the Nevada cemetery.