JOHN L. SCHMIDT, 80, SPORTSMAN, DIED
John Louis Schmidt, who had lived in this vicinity about 70 years, died on his 80th birthday Christmas eve in the Denison hospital. He had been in the Saunder's nursing home at Denison prior to being taken to the hospital Tuesday.
Funeral services were at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Ohde Funeral Home. The Rev. Harlan Kruse, minister of the Presbyterian Church, officiated. The Masonic service was given and members of the Masonic Lodge were pallbearers. Burial was in the Manning cemetery.
Music was provided by a quartet consisting of Arthur Rix, Ray Pratt, Burton Hoffmann and Clifford Manning Johnson, accompanied by Mrs. Henry W. Hagedorn, organist.
Mr. Schmidt, a hunter and fisherman, was a charter member of the Western Iowa Sportsman's association, to which he had devoted much time and work in its development.
He had spent most of his life as a traveling salesman for grocery firms out of Sioux City and Omaha. At one time he operated a cafe in Manning.
In later years, he had become a dog fancier, raising pedigreed Chesapeake dogs. He had exhibited his hunting dogs all over the United States, including the World's Fair at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1926.
Unmarried, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Minnie Behrens, Lamberton, Minn. and a half-sister, Mrs. Alfred (Clara) Fiala, Council Bluffs. He was born at Lost Nation, Ia. His father died when he was small and his mother was married later to Peter Claussen, a Manning farmer.
Three brothers, Louis, Frank and Charles, preceded him in death. He was a member of the Manual Lodge No. 450, A.F. and A.M., Manning.