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These contain much of the same information about a persons life and are presented here in alphabetical order by their surnames.
Schweitzer, Alice
The Forum, Fargo, ND (Logan, Stutsman)
June 2, 2000
Jamestown, N.D.
Alice Schweitzer, 89, Jamestown, died
Wednesday, May 31, 2000, in Jamestown Hospital.
Alice Kinzler
was born Nov. 17, 1910 in Fredonia, N.D., where she grew up and
attended school. On Nov. 10, 1929, she married Fred Schweitzer in
Lehr, N.D. They lived near Gackle, N.D. until moving to Spiritwood,
N.D., in 1944. In 1947 they moved near Windsor, N.D. He died in
1972. In 1993 she moved to Jamestown.
She is survived by four
sons, Floyd (Eva), Valley City, N.D., Howard (Eleanor), St. Onge,
S.D., Curtis (Paula), Lead, S.D., Leo (Faye), Bismarck, N.D.; three
daughters, Shirley Perrett, Marshall, Wis., Arlene (Eugene) Pfarr,
St. Onge, S.D., Joan Empting, St. Cloud, Minn.; three sisters,
Esther McKenna, Aberdeen, S.D., Mae (Harold) Wendland, Union City,
Calif., Martha Dahl, Bullhead City, Ariz.; 28 grandchildren, 23
great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
Visitation:
Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sunday from 9 to 11 in Haut Funeral Home,
Jamestown, and one hour before the funeral in the church.
Funeral: Monday at 1 in St. Paul’s United Methodist Church,
Jamestown.
Burial: Gackle Cemetery, Gackle, N.D.
Schweitzer, Elmer
The Jamestown Sun, ND (Logan, Stutsman)
Tuesday, September 29,
2009
Elmer Schweitzer, 79, Jamestown, died Saturday, Sept.
26, 2009, at his home.
Mr. Schweitzer was born Aug. 7, 1930,
at the family farm south of Gackle, N.D., the son of Gottfried and
Maria (Janke-Wolf) Schweitzer. He received his elementary education
in the local rural school. In 1944 they moved into Gackle where he
graduated from Gackle High School in 1944. He enlisted in the U.S.
Air Force on Oct. 20, 1948, at Fargo, N.D. He was discharged on Dec.
2, 1952, at George Air Force Base, California, with the rank of
staff sergeant. He attended Valley City State College, Valley City,
N.D., in 1953 and graduated in 1957. He taught school in Isabel,
S.D., and Streeter, N.D. He married Ida Haack on March 29, 1959, at
Streeter. They moved to Winston, Ore., in 1959, where he taught
school and coached. In 1965 they moved to Granville, N.D., and then
to Napoleon, N.D., in 1966 where they lived until 1973. He attended
North Dakota State University, Fargo, where he earned his master’s
in education, guidance and counseling. They moved to Gackle in 1973
where he was superintendent until 1981. They moved to Bismarck where
he worked for Strommen and Associates. She died May 16, 1982. He
married Joan Dillenberg on Oct. 21, 1983, at Bismarck. They moved to
Gackle in 1988 where he worked for the First State Bank of Gackle
until he retired on Dec. 31, 1997. They moved to Jamestown in 2001.
He was a member of Atonement Lutheran Church, Jamestown, the Lions
Club, American Legion and the Elks.
He is survived by his
wife, Joan; a son, Clyde (Fran) Haack, Wasilla, Alaska.; three
daughters, Joletta (Doug) Mays, Sandy Lake, Pa., Karla (Keary)
Brewster, Lake Lida, Minn., and Cheryl (Jerry Davis)
Schweitzer-Davis, Los Angeles; a brother, Bill, Boise, Idaho; a
sister, Elsie Wutzke, Myrtle Creek, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and
seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his
first wife, his parents, three sisters and nine brothers.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Atonement Lutheran Church, Jamestown,
with the Rev. Steve Bernston officiating.
Prayer service: 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Haut Funeral Chapel, Jamestown.
Visitation: 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. Wednesday, Haut Funeral Homes, Jamestown.
Burial: St.
Lukes Lutheran Cemetery, Streeter.
Schweitzer, Floyd G
The Jamestown Sun, ND (Logan, Stutsman)
Thursday, April 24,
2003
Floyd G. Schweitzer, 72, Valley City, N.D., died
Tuesday, April 22, 2003, in his home after battling cancer.
Mr. Schweitzer was born Sept. 15, 1930, at Gackle, N.D., the son of
Fred and Alice (Kinzler) Schweitzer. He grew up and attended school
in Gackle. He later served in the U.S. Air Force. He married Eva
Bentz on Dec. 25, 1955. In 1964 they moved to Valley City. He worked
on missile silos at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. In the spring of
1966 he worked for Blumer Construction, Valley City. In 1986 he
worked for the Barnes County Highway Department, retiring in 1998.
He enjoyed playing cards, fixing cars and anything, bird watching,
driving, dancing and socializing. He was a member of the V.F.W.,
American Legion, Eagles and the Last Man’s Club.
He is
survived by his wife; two daughters, Cindy Larson and Kathy Hoover,
both Valley City; two sons, Duane (Kristi) Schweitzer, Valley City,
and Jeff (Renee), Fargo, N.D.; three brothers, Howard (Eleanor), St.
Onge, S.D., Curtis Schweitzer, Lead, S.D., and Leo (Faye), Bismarck,
N.D.; two sisters, Arlene (Eugene) Pfarr, St. Onge, and Shirley
Perrett, Marshall, Wis.; and 10 grandchildren.
He was
preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Roy; and three sisters,
Betty Thornton, Joan Empting and Mary Haugen.
Services: 2
p.m. Friday, Trinity Lutheran Church, Valley City, with the Revs.
Ellen Arthur and Thomas Peterson officiating.
Visitation: 6 to 8
p.m. today and 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Peterson-Johnson-Schuldt Funeral
Home, Valley City, and one hour before the service at the church.
Schweitzer, Gottfried
Gackle Tri-County News, ND (Logan, LaMoure)
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.
None at this time.
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