Wife --- Else M. (Joens) Struve 1894 - 1988
Son of Carsten and Margaretha (Joens) Struve
A son, Donald Struve served during WWII

Service Number 4006923
Rank Private
Unit Company I, 23rd Infantry
Enlistment July 26, 1918
Discharge August 14, 1919
Departure September 9, 1918
Unit Camp Gordon, Georgia, September Automatic Replacement Draft Company, 5th Infantry
Departure July 23, 1919, at Brest, France
Arrival August 4, 1919, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the U.S.S. Virginian (ID-3920)
Address R.F.D. 3, Manning

Ray Pratt will be soloist and pallbearers are to be nephews of the deceased. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery with military graveside rites.

Mr. Struve was taken to the Veterans' Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, June 28 where he died suddenly July 1, 1960.

He is survived by his wife: a son, Donald, Ft. Dodge; two granddaughters, Julie Ann and Mary Elizabeth; three brothers, Claus, Omaha; John J., Manning; and Emil, Porterville, California; and two sisters, Mrs. Herbert (Margaret), Hinze, Arcadia; and Mrs. Henry (Lillian) Brandt, Wheaton, Illinois.

Preceding him in death were his parents; a sister who died in infancy; two sisters, Catherine and Mrs. Ferdinand (Anna) Hill; and two brothers, William and George.

Mr. Struve was born July 14, 1891 at Clinton the son of Carsten Struve and Margaretha (Joens) Struve.

In 1901, he moved to a farm near Botna and in 1905, he moved again to a farm east of Manning.

He served in World War I from June 26, 1918, to August 14, 1919. He was married to Else Joens December 17, 1919, and farmed near Manning for 23 years. In 1942, the couple moved to Manning where he was in the trucking business until his semi-retirement in the past two years.