Ferdinand Ranniger

Name listed in the 1919 Monitor Roll of Honor list

Departure September 9, 1918
Address Rfd #2 Westside
Rank Private
Service Number 4006618
Unit Camp Gordon, Georgia, September Automatic Replacement, Draft Company, 6th Infantry
Buried Carroll City Cemetery, Carroll, Iowa

FERDINAND RANNIGER Funeral services for Ferdinand Ranniger, 73, Carroll, were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Paul Lutheran Church.

The Rev. Harold W. Kieck officiated. The hymns "Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness" and "Be Still, My Soul" were sung by Donald R. Petersen. Mrs. Victor Jons was organist. Pallbearers were Earl, Elroy and Melvin Ranniger, George and Ivan Opperman and Harold Schmidt. Interment was in the Carroll City Cemetery, under direction of the Twit Funeral Home.

Mr. Ranniger died January 30, 1965, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Des Moines.

Out-of-state relatives attending the rites included Mr. and Mrs. John Ranniger, Gaylord, Minnesota, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ranniger, St. Paul, Minnesota. Other relatives attended from Sioux City, Manning, Arcadia, Danbury, Lake City, Coon Rapids and Carroll.

Ferdinand was born March 15, 1891, son of John Ranniger and Antje (Hadenfeldt) Ranniger. He married Lena M. Opperman in 1920.

He had the following siblings: Mrs. Alvina Bolte of Hornick, Iowa; Mrs. Louise Bolte of Wheatland, Wyoming; Henry, and Emil of Manning, and John W. of Sanborn, Minnesota, also one brother, William, of Aspinwall.