The body of Emil Grundmeier arrived here Sunday from Manning, Iowa, accompanied by his wife, his parents, sister and other relatives. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 4:30 from the home of his brother-in-law, H. Johansen in the Maple City neighborhood, the former home of the deceased. Rev. Theo. Engel of Trinity Lutheran church conducted a short service at the house, also at the grave and the funeral sermon was given afterward in Trinity Church.
Emil Grundmeier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Grundmeier of Manning, Iowa, was born at Carroll, Iowa, August 15, 1892, and died at the cottage home by the lake near Manning Thursday afternoon, September 4, at about 5 o'clock. He lived with his parents at the farm home near Manning until his marriage to Miss OlgaGomer of Austin on December 15, 1915, who with two sons, Roy, aged two and Earl, seven months, survive. They moved to the farm owned by his father about seven miles northeast of the city now occupied by his brother-in-law. He was not strong and a condition of weak lungs was noticed to develop into tuberculosis. For two years he has been unable to work and more than a year ago he gave up his farming here and left for his parents' home in Iowa. He never took to his bed. He was about as usual though his family noticed the failing strength. He drove part of the way to Sac City, Iowa the day before his death, to see his doctor. He wished to lie down to rest Thursday and fell into the sleep. Funeral services were held in Manning Sunday morning at eight o'clock at his parents' home conducted by Rev. Aller, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of that place and in which church he was baptized as a child.
Beside the young wife and two baby sons, he leaves his parents, and aged grandmother, Mrs. Herman Grundmeier, Sr., three sisters, Mrs. Herman Johansen of Austin and Hulda and Alice at home, also four brothers, Arthur, Ben, Leo and Lester. One brother died in infancy.
The relatives who came to attend the funeral were Mrs. Herman Grundmeier Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Herman Grundmeier and Hulda of Manning, also uncles, Hugo, Emil, and Ewald Grundmeier of that place, Mrs. Anna Brunnier of Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schroeder of Wall Lake, Iowa and Adolph Grundmeier of Blackduck, Minnesota.