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Gottfried Schweitzer

Submitted by, MA Schwanke

Gackle Tri-County News, ND
June 23, 1966

Services Held

Gottfried Schweitzer, 82, longtime resident of the Gackle Community died early Thursday Morning, June 16, 1966 at a hospital in Jamestown, North Dakota where he had been hospitalized for about six weeks.

He was born January 29, 1884 in Bessarabia, South Russia, the son of John Schweitzer and Magdalena Wagner Schweitzer. He attended school and grew to manhood in his native land where he and Rosina Hertel were married in January 1906. They came with their family to the United States in 1914 when they settled north of Kulm, North Dakota. A year later they rented a farm northwest of Fredonia in Logan County, where he continued to live following the death of his wife in 1924. On April 19, 1925 he and Maria (Janke) Wolf were married at Fredonia, N.D. The next year in 1926 they moved to a farm 10 1/2 miles southwest of Gackle, where they farmed until 1944 when they moved into Gackle.

He had been Deacon and Trustee to the First Congregational Church in Gackle where he served as janitor for six years prior to his illness.

Surviving are his wife, nine children, Fred Schweitzer, Roseburg, Ore., Ida (Mrs. Arthur Wolf), Fredonia, N.D., Elsie (Mrs. Ben Wutzke), Denhoff, N.D., Erna (Mrs. Joe Schott), Alfred, N.D., William Schweitzer, Reinhold Schweitzer, Boise, Idaho, Robert Schweitzer, Jamestown, N.D., Elmer Schweitzer, Fargo, N.D. three stepchildren Arthur Wolf, Fredonia, N.D., Richard Wolf, Enderlin, N.D., Anna (Mrs. John Schweitzer), Roseburg, Ore., 46 grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren, one brother John Schweitzer, Jamestown, N.D., one sister Mrs. Emelia Leno, Jud, N.D.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, two sons, two brothers, and one sister.

Funeral services held Sunday afternoon, June 19, 1966 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Gackle with Rev. Emanuel Gackle, pastor officiating. Mrs. Emanuel Gackle played a program of organ music as friends and relatives assembled and left the church. "Droben in Eden" was sung by a sextet, Mrs. J. A. Zimmerman, Miss Pauline Schweinforth, Mrs. D. F. Schlittenhard, Mrs. John P. Schott, Mrs. Paul Schlenker, and Mrs. Emanuel Gackle playing the accompaniment. "My God And I" and "Beyond the Sunset" were sung by a duet Mrs. Marilyn Smith and Miss Ione Wutzke with Miss Doris Wolf playing the accompaniment.

The pallbearers were grandchildren Alvin Wolf, Clarence Wolf, Jeffrey Schott, Floyd Schweitzer, Kenny Wutzke, and Jerome Schweitzer. Burial was in the Gackle Cemetery at Gackle; North Dakota, with the Haut Funeral Home of Gackle in charge of arrangements.

Out of state relatives attending were Mr. and Mrs. John Schweitzer, Roseburg, Oreg.; Mr. and Mrs. William Schweitzer and Mr. Reinhold Schweitzer of Boise, Idaho; Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Kriger of Shepherd, Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pfarr, Mr. Howard Schweitzer, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Schweitzer of Lead, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Donavan Stensrud, Clarkfield, Minn.; Mrs. Paul Bladow of Detroit Lakes, Minn.; Mrs. Mary Erickson of Oakland, Calif.; and Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Labrensz of McLaughlin, S.D.