Obit of Wm. H. RALFS (b.1870 d.1932), Rock Co., MN



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FARMER DIED HERE TUESDAY MORNING



Wm. H. Ralfs, of Near Trosky, Passed Away.

------- Funeral to be This Afternoon

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  William H. Ralfs, prominent farmer of the vicinity of Trosky, died 

at the Ashton Memorial Hospital tuesday morning ; Mr. Ralfs had been 

in poor health for about five weeks and had been at the hospital but 

one day when his death occurred from heart trouble.

  Funeral services will be held at the home near Trosky at one thirty 

o'clock, on Friday afternoon and at the Trosky Methodist Church at 

two o'clock conducted by Rev. Everett Hall of Pipestone. The burial 

will be in the Trosky cemetery .

  William H. Ralfs was born on Sept. 12, 1870 in Germany.  He came 

to the United States when he was about a year and a half old and

settled with his parents in Tama County, Iowa.

  He was married on September 17, 1897, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and 

he and his bride located once at Paulina, Iowa. In 1903 they moved 

to Pipestone County, locating near Trosky and have since made their 

home there.

  He is survived by his wife and seven children, Mrs. Hilda Kamrath, 

Sherburn Minn. ; Mrs. Mamie Burmeister, Canby Minn ; George Ralfs, 

Trosky,  Miss Elsie Ralfs ; Mrs. Grace Kickland, Jasper, Minn. ; 

Mrs. Stella Barck, St. Paul, Minn. and Mrs. Laura Oye of Pipestone, 

Minn.

  One Daughter Viola  died in infancy.

  Two brothers, Herman who lives in Alaska and Theodore of St. Paul 

and two sisters, Mrs. Hans J. Hansen, and Mrs. Johanna Knoop both 

of Traer, Iowa, and eleven grandchildren also survive.

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On April 4, 2001, I, Claire Marie Grant,

Found this obituary at the Pipestone Museum.

From The Pipestone Leader

Dated March 17, 1932

Page1,Col.1 Par. 2:





WILLIAM H. RALFS

  The death of Wm. Ralfs, of Trosky, occured at the Ashton Memorial 

Hospital Tuesday, about noon. He had been ill for five weeks with 

heart trouble, but had been a patient at the hospital for only a 

few days. Funeral Services will be held tomorrow afternoon in Trosky 

at 1:30 o'clock at the home, and 2:00 o'clock at the M. E. Church, 

Rev. Everett Hall of this city conducting the services.

  Deceased was born in Germany, September 12, 1870, and came to 

America when one and a half years old settling with his parents 

in Tama County, Iowa. He later resided in Paullina, Iowa, and moved 

to Trosky, in 1903.

  Besides the widow he is survived by seven children and eleven 

grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. Hilda Kamrath, Sherburn; 

Mrs. Mamie Burmeister, Canby; Mrs. Grace Kickland, Jasper; Mrs. 

Stella Barck, St. Paul; Mrs. Laura Oye, Pipestone; George and Elsie 

Ralfs, of Trosky ; two brothers Herman of Alaska; and Theodore, of 

St. Paul; two sisters, Mrs. H. J. Hanson, Traer, Iowa; and Mrs. 

Johanna Knoop, Also of Traer. A daughter Viola preceded her father 

in death.



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   On April 4, 2001, I, Claire Marie Grant, Found this obituary at the Museum.

     From the Pipestone County Star Dated March 22, 1932     

     Page 8, Col.3, Par.4.





BURIAL AT TROSKY FRIDAY

  Funeral services for William H. Ralfs were held on Friday afternoon 

at one-thirty o'clock at the home and two o'clock at the Methodist 

church at Trosky, conducted by Rev. Everett Hall of this city. The 

burial was in the Trosky cemetery, the following members of the Trosky 

Odd Fellows Lodge acting as pall bearers: R. Faulkner, H. A. Griffin, 

Herman Arp, William Grimnitz, Robert Butts and Tom Feltner.

  The late Mr. Ralfs was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Trosky.

  Relatives here from a distance were all the children and families, 

also Emil Hanson and Emil Knoop both of Traer, Iowa.

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CARD OF THANKS

   We wish to Express our appreciation and sincere thanks for the 

kindness and sympathy shown us by the Odd Fellows, to the choir 

for their songs, for the many floral offerings and especially to 

our neighbors and friends for their acts and deeds at the time of 

the death and funeral of our beloved husband and father.

Mrs. William Ralfs and Family.