Obit for BOCKENSTEDT, Frank Aloysius (b.1873 d.1943), Murray Co., MN
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"F. Bockenstedt Is Summoned On Friday - Death Follows Poor Health After 
Stroke in 1943

In the death of Frank A. Bockenstedt, which occurred Friday morning, 
November 10, a man whose name has been associated with Fulda business 
circles for more than forty years, passed to his eternal rest. Mr. 
Bockenstedt has been in failing health for the past two years, having 
suffered a stroke in February 1943, after which he was seriously ill 
for some time. That first illness had been followed by several light 
strokes at intervals and he has been more or less confined to his home 
for several months. In the past week his condition took a change for the 
worse and he went into a coma on Tuesday and grew gradually weaker until 
the end came at 10:50 Friday morning. His wife, two daughters and a son 
were at his bedside as he peacefully slept away. One daughter, Mrs. Carl 
Spielman of St. Petersburg, Florida, has been unable to come due to the 
illness of her husband.

Frank Aloysius Bockenstedt, son of Arnold and Mary Bockenstedt, was born 
on April 15, 1873, at New Vienna, Iowa. He was one of a family of eight 
children, four boys and four girls; of the three brothers, Edward, John, 
and Henry, and four sisters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Anne, and Rose, only 
Mrs. Catherine Moore of St. Paul, and Edward and Anne Bockenstedt of 
Dyersville, Iowa, survive. He also leaves three grandchildren, Russel and 
Nadine Gerber, and Walter Bockenstedt, Jr.

The deceased spent his childhood and young manhood in the vicinity of New 
Vienna, and on November 17, 1897, was married to Anna Von Lemden of New 
Vienna. They were the parents of four children, a son, Walter of Fulda, 
and three daughters, Mrs. Louis Devener (Loretta) of Fargo, Miss Elsie 
Bockenstedt of St. Paul, and Mrs. Carl Spielman of St. Petersburg, Florida.

After living in New Vienna for about five years, where Mr. Bockenstedt was 
in the live stock business, they came to Fulda in 1902 where he continued 
in the same work until 1920 when he purchased a meat market which he 
operated until his retirement in 1940. He was held in high esteem by many 
friends and was a kind and loving husband and father. He was a member of 
the Fulda Modern Woodmen all of the forty years of his life in Fulda. He 
will be sadly missed. 

The requiem mass was sung Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock by the Rev. 
Father Meyer, and burial was made in St. Gabriels cemetery. 
The pallbearers were Edward Fuchs, Isador Pollack, F.J. Elskamp, Wm. Heer, 
Peter Odenbrett and Richard Nevin.

Among the relative and friends who were here for the funeral services were 
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Devener and Russel Gerber of Fargo, Miss Elsie 
Bockenstedt of St. Paul, Mrs. Anna Kramer, Mrs. John Hennekes and 
daughters, the Misses Clara and Lorett, and Mrs. Henry Henenkes of 
Adrian, and Mrs. O.A. Galvin and Misses Rose and Anne, and Daniel of 
Currie, Miss Mary Sueddeck, Mr. and Mrs. Dominick Kellen, Mrs. Nick 
Kellen and Mrs. Henry Schultz of Adrian, Edward Notehe and Mrs. Leo 
Timmerman of Arcadia, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Moore of St. Paul." 
(This article came from a relative's scrapbook in Fulda, MN. The name 
and date of the paper is unknown.)