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Services Heldij' «,Here Today for 'John Ohrt! tc.IthCrirr:SlrCu' COPassed Away at Cedar Falls Tuesday; Burial in West ViewFuneral sec vices were held this . (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Jclihnnson Funeral home for John Ohrt of this city, whose dcaln occured Tuesday.Rev. M. £. Shank of the Ev-. j| angelical United Bre'hren church officiated and appropri-mic organ music was furnished } ib y Mrs. Herbert Johann sen.11 * Casket bearers were six ! grandsons.1 Burial was made in WesL View1-NC1 cemetery.I Failing Heallh-1': Ivlr. Ohrt passed away at the 11 jChristie Convalescent home at !l;Cedar Falls at I o’clock Tucs-c day morning from complications c- at the age of 89 years. He had - been in failing health for scvor-mon'hs and had received n care nt Lhe Christie home for 10 | days.Lli John Ohrt was bom Feb. 3,ICj 1SG2 in Holstein, Germany, the -son of John and Margate L (Dells) r OhrLlV He came to America with hi:; l_ mulher at the ape of 10 years d and settled near Mt. Auburn in '-s Benton county* Iowa, where he^o r grew to manhood. |h On Sept. 22, lfiST he was £ .united in marriage to Rosa a ‘elBallheim ?\t the home of her t d parents in Brucc township. south of La Porte City. They celebrated their 50th wedding c anniversary nncl this year mark- a cd their G4th year of marriage. FarmedMr. Ohrt hod been a farmer in his younger days and lived on|C farms near La Porte City in t Benton arid Black Hawk cnun-. ties. On March 1, 1919 he rc- r tired and' moved lo ’La Porte” •’ City, where he rpent the rc- i mninder of his life. !Surviving are his wife and i five sans, AlberL and Thermrm of ■ Vjnton, Kuno and Louis of Wn- i lerloo and Ted of Maquokota; 30 ! grandchildren, 30 grcat-prand-' -children and one half-sister,1 -Miss Mary WanJschneidei oly Cedar Falls. iHe was preceded in death by-one brother, I wo sisters and two. half-sisters. j1
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Progress Review
La Porte City, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1951
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