CARL VOSS
PROMINENT CITIZEN PASSED AWAY
Passed Away In Omaha Sunday Evening; Made no Complaint of Being Ill.
Prominent In Business Came To Manning In 1892 and Later Started In Business With Mr. John Frahm.
The sad news arrived Monday morning that Carl Voss had suddenly passed away at his hotel in Omaha Sunday night. The news came as a great shock to his many friends. He was found dead in bed Monday morning at about 7:00 a.m. After conversing with his friend August Plahn of Manning Sunday evening, about transacting business at the South Omaha stockyards Monday morning, Mr. Plahn went to his room at the hour specified. Calling but receiving no answer he became alarmed and notified the hotel clerk. The door was unlocked and he was found lifeless, as if slumbering a peaceful slumber. Authorities were notified and a physician after a careful examination of the body, made the statement that a cancer of the lungs caused his sudden death. The body was brought to Manning for burial.
Carl Voss was the oldest son of Heinrich Voss and his wife Zilke, and was born in Stakendorf, Probstei, Holstein, Germany, on the 15th day of April 1869. He spent his boy-hood days in Germany where he was educated in the public schools. When but a boy he and his brother, sturdy as they were, stood at the anvil with their father in his blacksmith shop, before and after school, hammering the hot and heavy iron with three solid strokes following in short intervals, ringing over the village, arousing the inquisitiveness of the neighbors who often enjoyed seeing then sturdy youngsters swinging the big hammer.
In 1886 the deceased left Germany and came to America, locating in Lyons, Iowa, where he worked for about three years in the saw mill after which he came to Crawford county, working on the farm of C. Thiedemann and other places in Hays Township. In 1892 he came to Manning and has been in business here ever since, at first serving as waiter in refreshment places and later starting in business with his present partner John Frahm.
The deceased has no relatives in this country and in Germany two brothers, who are both school superintendents and very prominent in professional circles, mourn his death. One sister, Agusta, Mrs. Henry, Horst in Stakendorf and one brother, William, preceeded him in death. William dying on the battlefield in the world war.
The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Presbyterian church, the Reverend Zimmerman officiating.
Interment was made at the Manning cemetery.
He leaves to mourn his death in this community, a large circle of friends who admired his manliness, his honesty and integrity. He was a noble, truthful man in all his dealings.