Klahr, Henry William 1878 - 1942
KLAHR, SCHULDT, GILBERT, WILSON, DAHLING, CHETTINGER
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 4/1/2024 at 14:53:21
Clayton County Register, 26 Aug. 1942.
Henry Klahr, 64, of Mederville, met death Monday afternoon when he fell from a tractor and was run over by a threshing machine. It is believed that he suffered from a heart attack, which caused his fall.
The accident occurred about 2:45 Monday afternoon as Mr. Klahr was moving the threshing machine from his farm to the Stephen Leonard place. Rudolph Bucholz, employed by Klahr was following the machine with a team of horses and was the first to reach the body lying in the road.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 at the farm home and 2 o'clock at the Evangelical and Reformed church. Rev. P. Kitterer will officiate.
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Clayton County Register, 02 Sept. 1942.Funeral services for Henry William Klahr, who was killed when he fell from a tractor and was run over by a threshing machine last Monday afternoon, were held at the farm home at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. P. Kitterer officiated. Burial was made in the Mederville cemetery.
Mr. Klahr was born June 10, 1878 on a farm in Cox Creek township, son of Charles and Adeline Klahr. He was baptized in Clayton Center by Rev. Seifert and received his education at the Mederville school. June 30, 1909 he was married to Freda Sophia Schuldt, who preceded him in death May 13, 1938. Mr. Klahr spent all of is life on the farm on which he died except for a few months in Texas.
Survivors include two adopted children, Everett Gilbert of Strawberry Point and Beulah Wilson, who made her home with her father, two half-sisters, Mrs. Anna Dahling of Littleport and Mrs. Martha Chettinger of Strawberry Point; four grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
Mr. Klahr was a member of the Turn Verein of Communia; director of the Farmers' Telephone company and president of the Thresher company.
Pallbearers were members of the threshing crew who were with him when he died: Harvey, Eldo and Orville Johnson, Jay Dunn, Stephen Leonard and Thomas Kenneally.
Out-of-town relatives and friends who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Messersmith of Charles City, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Walther of Cedar Falls, Mr. and Mrs. August Walther of Denver, Ia., Victor Peake of Rockford and Florence Allman of Waterloo.
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