Funeral Services For Fred Wiese Are Held Sunday

Funeral services for Fred Wiese, 66, who died at the St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll, Friday, July 8, 1938, were held at the Ohde Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Frank Throw, pastor of the Manilla Presbyterian Church, officiating.

Burial was in the Manning Cemetery and pallbearers were Pete Mailer, Fred Maller, Robert Sinow, William Schultz, Fred Grau, and John Frahm.

Mr. Wiese had been ill for three months prior to his death.

Fred Wiese was born in Denmark March 29, 1872, son of Christopher and Anna Wiese, and came to this country at the age of nine years. For the next two years the family lived in New York and then came directly to Carroll County where he lived until December, 1937, when he moved to Manilla. Throughout his active life he was a farmer.

In 1894, he was married to Matilda Goettsch of Manning. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Besides his father, mother and wife he is survived by the following children: Mrs. Chris Hargens, William, Louis, Fred, Henry, Conrad, Mrs. Ed Grau, and Herbert. There are forty grandchildren.

Surviving also are a brother, Nels Wiese, of Manilla, a sister, Mrs. Hannes Schmidt, of Manning, and a half-brother, Peter Wiese, of Hammond, Louisiana.

One brother, Chris, preceded him in death.

Relatives from a distance who attended the rites were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Grau of Walcott, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Wiese of Council Bluffs, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kindred of Davenport.