NEARLY 99 YEARS OLD.

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Erick John Erickson, for 40 years a resident of Montgomery county, died at the home of his grandson, Oscar Erickson, four miles northeast of Red Oak, yesterday (Thursday) morning about 4:20 o’clock from kidney trouble following illness of only two days.

The funeral will be held at the home of Mrs. Caroline Erickson, one and one half miles northeast of town this (Friday) afternoon, Nov. 22. Rev. A. H. Franzen, of the Swedish Lutheran church, will preach the funeral sermon and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery. The pallbearers will be Alex Sandahl, Frank and Gus Liljedahl, August Anderson, August Johnson and Wm. Planck, and the singing by the Lutheran choir.

Mr. Erickson was one of the oldest people in the county. Had he lived a month longer he would have been 99 years of age. He was a native of Sweden, born in Smolland, Dec. 22, 1813, and came to America in 1867, locating on a farm in Illinois, and in 1872 he came to this county and he had lived here ever since.

He was a member of the Swedish Lutheran church and was a man who leaves many friends to mourn his passing. He is survived by four children, Mrs. John Zimmerman, living northeast of Red Oak about five miles, and Otto Erickson, Miss Ida Erickson and a married daughter, all of Seattle, Wash.

THE SUN, Red Oak, Iowa, Friday, November 22, 1912.