CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF EMERY ARNDT ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== WYNOT TRIBUNE MAY 25, 1952 EMERY ARNDT FUNERAL TODAY SERVICES POSTPONED WAITING FOR SON Wynot - Funeral services for Emery Theodore Arndt, 63, long time Wynot business man who died May 14, were held today, Thursday afternoon, from the Methodist Church with J.E. Dalton officiating. Burial was in Bow Valley Cemetery at Wynot under the direction of Smith Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Victor Nelson, Earl Deist, O.C. Decker, Lester Olson, Raymond Nielsen, and C.H. Newman. The funeral services were originally planned for Monday but were postponed awaiting the arrival of a son, Carroll, who was enroute home from Japan. Emery Arndt was born April 17, 1889, at Welcome, Minn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arndt. He graduated from Welcome, Minn. high school and business college at Osage, Ia. At the age of 18 he entered into the lumber business in Iowa and South Dakota and had continued in that business for 45 years until the time of his death. He came to Wynot in July 1910 from Hornick, IA., where he worked for the Superior Lumber company. He continued to work for that company here in 1922 when the Superior Lumber company sold to the Home Lumber Company and Mr. Arndt was retained as manager, and had remained in that same business here since that time, a period of 42 years. On May 7, 1913, he married Miss Bonnie Kirkpatrick of Wynot. They married in Sioux City. Mr. Arndt has always been interested in civic affairs and has served on the various boards of the town and school. He is the last remainng one of the early day business men. Mr. Arndt is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Olson (Aileen) of San Jose, Calif., Donald at home who has been associated with the business with his father; Jerry of Sioux City and Carroll in the Navy stationed in the Far East; also two grandsons. One son, Robert, died in 1932.