Fr
Frank Bartz, Well Known
Farmer, Died Saturday;
rank R. Bartz, 71*, dTeAfhis|
home west of town about 7 o'clock ■
Saturday morning after an illness
of nearly two years. The funer-!
al services were held Monday af-{
ternoou at the Trinity Lutheran j
church here, the pastor, Rev. A. |
C. 'f hober, officiating and inter- [
ment in Union cemetery' here. J
Mr. Bartz was born in Germany I
and came to America with his
widowed mother, two brothers
and a sister when he was ten
years of age. For a few years
the family lived in what is now
the Reinhart Ninke home on Fre¬
mont street. Later they moved
to the farm west of town which
continued to be his home until ■
his death.
In 1906 he was united in mar¬
riage to Miss Martha jic_heil of
Toledo, and to tbis union two i
sons were born, Erwin and Carl, j
both still at home. The only j
survivors are his widow, the twoi
sons and a niece, Mrs. Henry!
Schmjdlin* living west of town.
Mr. Bartz had been a member
of Trinity Lutheran church for
the past twenty years, was a
charter member of the Men's��Club of that church and a director
of the Farmers' Elevator Com¬
pany of Elmore.
