CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Ferdinand Guenther

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THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS -  May 1, 1968 


Funeral services for Ferdinand J. Guenther, 78, of Fordyce were held 
Friday, April 26 at 10:oo a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church 
in Fordyce, Nebr.  Rev. Cyril Werner officiated and interment was in 
the parish cemetery under the direction of the Smith Wintz Funeral 
Home.

Pallbearers were Kenneth Guenther, James Hames, Michael and Gordan 
Steffen, Ralph Guenther and Dennis Wortmann, all grandsons of the 
deceased.

Mr. Guenther died Tuesday, April 23, 1968, at Sacred Heart Hospital 
following an illness of about three years.  He had strokes.

Ferdinand J. Guenther was born August 28, 1889 at West Point, Nebr. 
the son of Fred and Catherine (Ortmeier) Guenther.  He married Mary 
Foxhoven October 12, 1915 at Crofton, where they lived, engaged in 
farming, until 1961, when he retired and moved to Fordyce.  He was 
a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and the Holy Name 
Society.

Survivors include his wife, Mary; five daughters: Mrs. Ted 
(Catherine) Dreismeier and Mrs. Victor (Elizabeth) Hames both of 
Crofton, Mrs. Anthony ( Mary) Steffen, Mrs. Rudolph (Anna) 
Wortmann and Mrs. Roman (Roseline) Burbach, all of Hartington; five 
sons: Fred of Yankton, John of Wynot, Joseph of Sioux City, Ia., 
Clarence of Bloomfield, and Albert of Norfolk; 63 grandchildren; 15 
great-grandchildren; and three brothers: Casper and Fritz, both of 
Crofton, and Joseph of Beaver Dam, Wis.

Five brothers preceded him in death.