Mrs. Anna Fritz returned Monday evening after spending about two weeks at Irene, South Dakota where she attended the funeral of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Louis Fritz on July 12. Enroute home she stopped at Sergeant Bluff and Correctionville.

Mr. Fritz and his wife had many friends in this vicinity who were sorry to hear of Mrs. Louis Fritz death. The obituary from a South Dakota paper is as follows:

Mrs. Louis Fritz, nee Marie Burke, passed away very suddenly on July 10 at Sacred Heart Hospital at Yankton, South Dakota, her illness being diagnosed as cancer.

Marie Burke was born in Oppdal, Norway, on May 5, 1893, and came to America with her parents when she was a year old. The following year her mother passed away, leaving her and an infant brother, Herman, motherless. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Burke and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gilbertson opened their homes to them, and Marie became a foster daughter of the Burkes, and Herman a foster son of the Gilbertsons.

Marie moved to Irene a short time before her marriage on January 1914, in Sioux Falls to Louis Fritz of Manning, Iowa. With the exception of a few years spent in Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz made their home in Irene. Eight children were born to them, three passing away in infancy. Her only brother, Herman also preceded her in death.

Besides her husband she leaves five children: Dorothy (Mrs. Laverne Nelson) of Wakonda; Lester at Fort Meade and Dale, Phyllis, and Betty Lou at home. Her foster sister, Mrs. K.O. Lokken of Minneapolis and a grandson also survive her.

Funeral services were conducted on Saturday at the Irene Lutheran Church with Rev. J.M. Johnson officiating, assisted by K.O. Lokken of Minneapolis, and Rev. Oscar Hanson of Watertown. Misses Lorraine and Sylvia Hevle sang two selections at the church services. Pall bearers were six members of the postal department of which Mr. Fritz is an employee.

She was laid to rest in the Irene cemetery.

Those coming from a distance to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. K.O. Lokken, Inga, and Elizabeth of Minneapolis; Rev. and Mrs. Oscar Hansen of Watertown; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lokken, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Mosby, Folker Hansen and A.H. Hagen of Sioux Falls; Olin Lokken of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Burke of Lennox, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Burke of Dumont, Iowa; Mrs. Anna Burke, Mrs. Arnold Burke and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lokken all of Yankton; Mrs. Anna Fritz of Manning; Fred Fritz of Missouri Valley; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fritz of Correctionville, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shafenburg and Mrs. Frank Sheets of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Vermeule of Carroll, Iowa.