Departure May 10, 1918, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the U.S.S. President Lincoln
Unit Company D, 42nd Engineers
Rank Private
Service Number 2156971
Address 126 North Walnut Street, Carroll, Iowa

Bernard "Ben" Krapfl, 82, of 126 North Walnut Street, Carroll, died about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, November 18, 1969, at St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll after being in failing health for two weeks.

Requiem mass will be read at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Holy Spirit Church. Interment will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery with military honors by Maurice Dunn Post No. 7, American Legion.

Mr. Krapfl was born September 1, 1887, at Petersburg, Iowa, a son of Mathias and Josephine (Nurre) Krapfl, and received his education at Petersburg.

He came to Carroll County, in the Templeton vicinity, in 1902. In World War I he was a private first class in Detachment 681st Demolition Group, 351st Infantry. He served overseas from May 9, 1918, to May 25, 1919.

For four years he worked as a carpenter with John Linneman at Manning. After his parents retired, he and his brothers, Frank and Andy, and sisters, Kate and Rose, farmed the home place two miles northwest of Templeton until they retired and moved to their home in Carroll 21 years ago.

Surviving are a brother, Frank, Carroll; four sisters, Mrs. Cecelia Olberding of Luverne, Minnesota; Mrs. Regina Sandrock, Melvern, Long Island, New York; Mrs. Lydia Singsank, Carroll; and Mrs. Carolyn Taylor of Adrian, Minnesota; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Krapfl Reinhart, Carroll.

He was preceded in death by five sisters, Mayme Schroeder, Kate, Rose, Philomina, and Anne Krapfl; and a brother, Andy Krapfl.

Mr. Krapfl was a member of Holy Spirit Church, the Holy Name Society of the parish; a charter member of the Charles Carroll Council, Knights of Columbus; and a member of the local American Legion Post.