Obit for BUTENHOFF, Ferdinand G. (b.1883 d.1957), Clay Co., MN

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FERDINAND BUTENHOFF OBIT, #652

Barnesville Record-Review

Thursday, May 2, 1957



BUTENHOFF SERVICES SET



Funeral services for Ferdinand G. Butenhoff, 73, who farmed four miles 

south of Baker, will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 

Sabin, of which he was a member. The Rev. Im. W. Bade will officiate. 

Burial will be in the church cemetery.



Friends may call Friday afternoon and evening at Wright Chapel.



Mr. Butenhoff died Wednesday evening in a local hospital, where he had 

been a patient about three weeks.



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Born in Franklin County, Iowa, Sept. 9, 1883, he came to Clay County at 

the age of 17, to the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Possehl. He married 

Elma Stock at Albany, March 20, 1917, and they had celebrated their 40th 

wedding anniversary this spring.



Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Arnold and Laurence, rural Baker: 

three daughters, Mrs. Lester (Mathilda) Possehl, rural Baker, Mrs. 

Desmond (Delia) Jerde, Britton S.D., and Avis Butenhoff, Tokyo, Japan, 

who is presently home on emergency leave.



He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Rose Possehl, 1608 4th Ave. S., Mrs. 

T.E. Iverson, 503 8th Ave. S., and Mrs. O. M. Iverson of Baker; two 

brothers, W. J. Butenhoff of Barnesville and Otto, Lancaster, Calif., and 

10 grandchildren. A daughter, a son, three brothers, and a sister 

preceded him in death.

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