Figge, Otto 1878 – 1899

FIGGE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:40

Source: Decorah Republican Feb. 2, 1899 P 4 C 1

Otto Figge Dead.
The busy little city of Ossian was last Monday afternoon thrown into a paroxysm of grief to learn that one of its finest young men, Otto Figge, the third son of Frank Figge, Esq., after an illness of less than forty-eight hours, passed to his eternal reward from an attack of brain fever. He was supposedly as well as ever at 4 pm. last Saturday, and in less than one-half hour, he was undergoing the agonies that from all indications would soon result in dissolution. The time arrived at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon.
Otto Figge was born July 30th, 1878, in this city, where he spent his short and useful life. From his boyhood days, after receiving his education, he has been identified with his father’s extensive mercantile business, and was a most active and responsible factor, not only in the conduct of the present business, but in the contemplated improvements which this successful firm had so extensively planned for execution in the spring.
Otto Figge was a model young man. That statement is not the testimony of this writer, but the unanimous verdict of a community who had known him all his life, and had daily opportunities to know his worth. His estimable family are prostrated with grief, and the entire community are not only sharers in that grief, but are horror-stricken over the sudden visitation of what can only be construed as the will of Almighty God.
He was well and favorably known in a majority of the cities and towns in northern Iowa, and has a host of friends who will unhesitatingly join the writer in the prayer that the lord may have mercy on his soul. J. McN.

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