Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Kaatz, Carl G.  October 10, 1965
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Carl ‘Shorty’ Kaatz
Rites Held Here                         (From the collection of Vivian Norby 
Andersen)

	Carl G. (Shorty) Kaatz, nearly 78, passed away at Knoxville, Iowa 
Sunday where he had been a patient the past few months.  He was a resident of 
the Soldier community  most of his adult life and was active in Legion and 
Masonic circles.
	Funeral service were held at Soldier Lutheran Church Wednesday, 
October 13 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Harry C. Sorensen officiating.  Mrs. 
Norman C. Hanson was soloist and sang “My Jesus I Love Thee” and “Just As I 
Am.”  Mrs. Charles Dommer Jr. was at the organ.
	Interment was in Soldier Valley cemetery under the direction of 
Pearson Funeral Home.  Soldier Legion Post gave the military rites with Gale 
Lee acting Commander and Vernon Johnson, Chaplain.  Masonic rites were 
conducted by Elk Lodge 586 AF&AM of Moorhead with Voyle Blackman as Worshipful 
Master and Park Moorhead as Orator.
	Bearers were Gordon Clemon, Bernard Thoreson, Stanley Frydenlund, Gale 
Lee, Don Pedersen and Loren Olson.
	Carl G. Kaatz, son of Karl Kaatz and Tina Elftman, was born at 
Sheldon, North Dakota November 13, 1887.  He passed away October 10, 1965 at 
the age of 77 years, 11 months and 3 days.  He had been a patient at the 
Veterans’ Hospital in Knoxville, Iowa since July 1964.  He was confirmed a 
member of the German Lutheran Church and lived at Sheldon until 1912.
	On October 23, 1926 he was united in marriage with Gunda Ulven at 
Logan, Iowa.  They made their home at Soldier until the death of his wife, 
Gunda, in 1960.  He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American 
Legion Post at Soldier.  He was also a member of Elk Lodge 586 AF&AM at 
Moorhead and of the Order of Consistory at Sioux City.
	“Shorty”, as he was known to his friends, was engaged in soil 
conservation work until his early seventies.
	His five sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
	He leaves to mourn his passing, one adopted son, Carl Ulven, of 
Danbury; two adopted daughters, Mabel (Mrs. Lyle Welch) of Long Beach, 
California and Elaine (Mrs. Ival Outhouse) of Pisgah, and a niece, Arla (Mrs. 
Frank Wilson) of Ute, whom he raised from early childhood; also eight 
grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren, besides a host of other 
relatives and friends.


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