Ira G. Fetterhoff (1902-1918)

FETTERHOFF

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/22/2017 at 22:25:35

From Nevada Evening Journal December 2, 1918 (front page)

"FLU" HAS CLAIMED MANY VICTIMS

FOUR DEATHS IN AND NEAR THE CITY SINCE SATURDAY FORENOON

The influenza situation has reached its most critical stage in Nevada and it is estimated that here are 600 cases of influenza in and around the city at this time. There is scarcely a home in the city in which there are not from one to a half dozen cases.

There is no use in trying to minimize the situation any longer. It is critical and a matter for the most grave concern. The physicians of the city are themselves breaking down under the strain. Some of them have been going continually and at least two of them have not been in bed or out of the actual services for the past two weeks.

There are no nurses to be had and there are homes in the city where there are severe cases where they have been unable to secure a physician, although calls have been placed for the past couple of days.

Four Deaths Since Saturday.

There have been four deaths in or near the city since Saturday morning. One death, however, that of Joe Lough, may not have been due to influenza or any of its complications. The others are due to pneumonia and that directly, and there are a number of other very serious cases that are the cause of the most grave concern.

Gates Died This Morning

Fred Gates, who died this morning at 6:00 o'clock had been ill for about a week this being the second attack of the disease for him and other members of the family.

Mrs. Mabel Wadsworth, a sister is on her way here from her home in Colorado. The funeral services will be conducted from the home and interment will be in the Nevada cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. There will be brief services at the grave.

While it was known that Mr. Gates was in a serious condition, the news of his death this morning caused a great shock to the community.

Mr. Gates was about 42 years of age. He was a native of Nevada and was well known in the county. Since a small boy he had been connected with the Gates blacksmith shop in this city and had had a wide and most favorable acquaintance among the farmers of all parts of the county, as well as the people of this city.

He leaves besides his wife, whom he married less than a year ago, his brother William R. Gates of this city, his sister Mrs. Wadsworth of Colorado, and a stepdaughter Miss Hazel Prior.

Death of Joe Lough

Joseph P. Lough died on Saturday morning and the brief funeral services and interment will be this afternoon at 2:30 in the Nevada cemetery.

Mr. Lough was born at Rock Island, Illinois, March 15, 1884. When about a year old his parents move over to the Iowa side of the river locating at Davenport. There they lived until he was eight years of age when they then moved up into Delaware county and that had continued to be his home until about eight years ago when he came to Nevada and has since made his home with the family of his brother. A few years ago he fell and suffered an injury to one of his hips which left him in a bad condition and he has never been well or able to get about with ease.

He was taken ill about a week ago and gradually grew worse until he died as stated on November 30 at the advanced age of 74 years. He was never married and leaves to mourn his death as immediate members of his family four brothers and one sister. The brothers are F. R., A. E. and C. W., all of near or in this city and Charles of Salem, S. D. The one sister is Mrs. John Stratton of southeast of the city.

Ira Fetterhoff Dead

Ira Fetterhoff, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fetterhoff of Lincoln avenue died Sunday afternoon at 12:30 after an illness of a week of pneumonia and influenza.

The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon, it being private at the grave at 2:00 p. m.

The young man was born near this city and would have been seventeen years of age on January 25. He leaves to mourn his death his parents, two brothers and one sister. The brothers are Alvin who is in the student army training corps at Ames and has been ill and in the hospital the most the time for the past seven weeks and Harold Fetterhoff, who is at home. The sister Miss Sylvia Fetterhoff, who is teaching in the schools at Flover but who is now at home. The brother Alvin who has been so ill over at the hospital at Iowa State College is reported to be very much better but will not be able to be present at the funeral tomorrow.

BRODIE FUNERAL TODAY

William A. Brodie died at the home of his mother Mrs. Rose Brodie on the Anderson farm six and a half miles northwest of the city Sunday morning at 9:00 o'clock and the services will be held this afternoon at 1:00 from the hoe and at 3:00 in the cemetery. He had been ill about a week having been taken down Saturday, Nov. 23, with influenza which later developed into pneumonia.

William Brodie, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Brodie, was born near Maxwell on September 3, 1893. He had always lived in this county and after the death of his father a few weeks ago he had been at home where he assisted the mother in operating the farm.

He leaves, besides his mother, five brothers and four sisters. The brothers are Kenneth of near Cambridge, Walker, who is in France, John, Andrew and Ralph, all of whom are at home. The sisters are Mrs. Mabel Larson and Misses Mary, Jennie and Rose Elma Brodie.