Cerro Gordo County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ewald Et Al, Albert 1939
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Globe-Globe Gazette Apr. 1939
From the Mason City (Cerro Gordo, Iowa) Globe-Gazette; Thursday, April 6, 1939,
p. 20, col. 1:

CRASH VICTIMS' RITES ARE HELD
Many Attend Funeral Services of Ewald, Anderson, Northwood

NORTHWOOD - Zion German Lutheran church in this city was filled to capacity
Tuesday afternoon when funeral rites were held for Albert Ewald, 55, who was
instantly killed when his car was struck by an M. & St. L. motor train in mason
City late last Saturday afternoon. The Rev. William Tjede was in charge of the
funeral rites. Burial was made in the Sunset Rest cemetery, Northwood.

A daughter, Evelyn, a step-daughter, Mrs. Lestern (sic) Gullickson, Northwood,
survive. Evelyn was with her father at the time of the accident but escaped
death, being at present in a Mason City hospital. Mrs. Ewald died May 13, 1924.

Also surviving are five brothers and two sisters, Herman Ewald, Northwood;
Arthur and Werner Ewald, Rockford; Robert Ewald, Lyle; Otto Ewald, Walters,
Minn., Mr. J. A. Lindquist, Des Moines; Mrs. M. E. Lindquist, Kensett. His
parents, one brother, and one sister preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Sorenson funeral home for
Martin Alfred Anderson, 45, who was killed in the same accident. Mr. Anderson
was employed by Mr. Ewald on his farm where he had worked for about five years.

Mr. Anderson was born April 20, 1894, in Minneapolis. He came to Worth county
with his parents when a boy. Both parents have been dead for more than 30 years.
After their death he worked for various farmers in this vicinity, being with the
Charles Shutz family for about 17 years before going to the Ewald farm.

Mr. Anderson has no relatives in this country but has several cousins and other
distant relatives in Norway where his mother was born.


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