Charles Kienast, 83, died this morning May 1, 1950, at 9:50 o'clock at the city hospital after an extended illness. He had been seriously ill the past two weeks and had been a patient in the hospital a week.

Mr. Kienast was born January 10, 1867, in East Prussia, Germany. He came to the United States at the age of six years and the family settled in Michigan. He later moved to Iowa where he married Miss Alvina Rutz at Gray, Iowa, on October 9, 1890. In 1910, Mr. Kienast moved his family to Cherokee County and made his home in the Ingram school district where he was a farmer for 21 years. Nine years ago he retired from farming and purchased a home at 545 South Minnesota, where he and Mrs. Kienast have resided since that time.

Surviving are the widow; one son, Walter Kienast, Centerville, South Dakota, one daughter. Mrs. Hilda Liaboe, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Two children, a son and a daughter, have preceded their father in death.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Lawson Bros. funeral home. Rev. George Jones will officiate. Burial will be in the Park Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the funeral hour.