Buried with his wife Erna (Beyer) at Inland Cemetery, Bennett, Iowa
Departure August 30, 1918, at New York, New York, on the U.S.S. Plattsburg (ID # 1645)
Rank Private
Service Number 4004737
Unit Camp Gordon Augusta, Georgia - Automatic Replacement Draft Company, 28th Infantry

Nicolai Gustav "Nick" Griebel, 82, Bennett, died Tuesday, May 8, 1979, at Cedar Manor Nursing Home, Tipton, Iowa, after an extended illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Bennett. Burial will be in Inland Cemetery, Bennett, Iowa.

Visitation is 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Sheets and Son Funeral Home, Tipton, and 9 a.m. to service time Friday at the church.

He was a retired farmer and seed corn salesman. He was also active as a carpenter.

Mr. Griebel was born in Manning, Iowa, May 14, 1896. He married Erna E. Beyer in 1919 in Ramona, South Dakota.

He was a veteran of World War I.

A son, Emil Griebel, died October 9, 1944, and was a Veteran of WWII.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Clarence (Hazel) Hartwig, Bennett; a son, Richard, Pittsville, Wisconsin; five grandchildren; two great-grandsons, and a brother, William, Morristown, Minnesota.

Notes:
Erna Emma Wilhelmine (Beyer) Griebel was born November 19, 1897 and died March 3, 1991 - buried at Inland Cemetery, Bennett, Iowa.
William & Ida Griebel in a 1910 Manning Monitor article
Hans Griebel and Hans Griebel, Jr. in a 1903 Monitor article
John Griebel 1905 Monitor article