Ferdinand G. BUTENHOFF

BUTENHOFF, POSSEHL, STOCK, JERDE, IVERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/10/2007 at 00:06:44

Barnesville Record-Review, MN
May 2, 1957

BUTENHOFF SERVICES SET

Funeral services for Ferdinand G. Butenhoff, 73, who farmed four miles south of Baker, [Minnesota] will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sabin, of which he was a member. The Rev. Im. W. Bade will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call Friday afternoon and evening at Wright Chapel.

Mr. Butenhoff died Wednesday evening in a local hospital, where he had been a patient about three weeks. Born in Franklin County, Iowa, Sept. 9, 1883, he came to Clay County at the age of 17, to the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Possehl. He married Elma Stock at Albany, March 20, 1917, and they had celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this spring.

Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Arnold and Laurence, rural Baker: three daughters, Mrs. Lester (Mathilda) Possehl, rural Baker, Mrs. Desmond (Delia) Jerde, Britton S.D., and Avis Butenhoff, Tokyo, Japan, who is presently home on emergency leave. He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Rose Possehl, 1608 4th Ave. S., Mrs. T.E. Iverson, 503 8th Ave. S., and Mrs. O. M. Iverson of Baker; two brothers, W. J. Butenhoff of Barnesville and Otto, Lancaster, Calif., and 10 grandchildren. A daughter, a son, three brothers, and a sister preceded him in death.