Service Number 2106590
Departure June 20, 1918, at Brooklyn, New York, on the SS Anselm
Rank Private
Unit Company 5, Camp Pike, Arkansas, June Automatic Replacement Draft Infantry
Enlistment September 11, 1917
Discharge January 28, 1919
Departure December 17, 1918, at Bordeaux, France
Arrival December 30, 1918, at Newport News, Virginia, on the U.S.S. Aeolus (ID-3005)
Branch Army - Company D, 9th Infantry

Born March 31, 1896
Lincoln Township, Audubon County, Iowa
Entered Into Rest September 2, 1969
Veterans Administration Hospital Des Moines, Iowa
Age 73 years, 5 months, 2 days
Services Held At Ohde Funeral Home Manning, Iowa
Friday, September 5, 1969, 2 P.M.
Clergyman Pastor Edw. F. Heinicke
Organist Dorothy Kusel
Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa
Interment Manning Cemetery
Casketbearers Oscar Rudnick, Herman Frahm, Myron Bogatzke, Hugo Ress, Marvin Wiemann, Albert Musfeldt

MILITARY HONORS Ceremonial Squads
American Legion Post No. 22
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3517 Manning, Iowa

ROBERT RUDNICK
Robert Rudnick, 73, of Manning died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Des Moines Tuesday evening, September 2, 1969. He had been ill for several months and hospitalized since August 12.

Military funeral rites will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Pastor Edward F. Heinicke, of Zion Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Rudnick was born March 31, 1896, in Lincoln Township, Audubon County, a son of August and Bertha (Bogatzke) Rudnick. He attended rural school near his home.

He served overseas in World War I and was wounded while in service. Following his discharge he returned to Manning and was employed as a mechanic, first for F.D. Ross and Company and then for the Frahm Garage. He retired five years ago.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Herman (Pauline) Dammann, Manning; and two brothers, Edwin of Manning, and Fred, of Carroll. Another brother, Julius, preceded him in death.