William Richard Sommerfeldt

Departure October 27, 1918, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the U.S.S. Leviathan (ID# 1326)
Service Number 4007542
Unit Camp Gordon, Georgia, October Automatic Replacement Draft Company, 10th Infantry

W. Sommerfeldt Dies In Kansas City Hospital
Rites for Former Manning Man Will Be Conducted Saturday Funeral rites will be held at the Ohde Funeral Home here at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon for William Richard Sommerfeldt, 48, former Manning resident, who died at St. Mary's Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, February 2, 1943, after an illness of eleven days. There will be a military service.

The Rev. H.T. Timmer, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Manilla, will officiate. A quartet composed of May (Mrs. Nick C.) Schrum, Emma (Mrs. Albert) Dietz, Herman C. Pahde and Clifford M. Johnson, will sing, with Bonita (Mrs. Henry W.) Hagedorn, as the organist.

The pallbearers and firing squad will be members of Emil Ewoldt Post of the American Legion.

Mr. Sommerfeldt was born in Germany March 7, 1894, to Albert and Bertha (Ohst) Sommerfeldt. When he was ten years old he came to America with his family, who settled near Gray. After several years of residence there, they moved to Manning. Mr. Sommerfeldt attended Manning grade school, and later worked for the Manning Produce Company. Subsequently, he attended Boyles Business College in Omaha, and after that he became a telegrapher for the Union Pacific Railroad.

His work was interrupted by World War I, during which he served overseas with the First Division.

After the war, he returned to Kansas and worked at various places in that state.

In 1931, he was married to Mrs. Florence (Wood) Prose, who died in 1939.

Survivors include his mother: Mrs. Bertha Sommerfeldt of Manning; two brothers, Albert of Manning and John of Council Bluffs; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Farrell, Manning, Iowa; Mrs. Frieda Peterson, Council Bluffs, Iowa; and Mrs. Erna Teckenberg, Denison, Iowa; one step-son, Paul Pross of Washington, D.C.; and one step-daughter, Mrs. Frances Merica of Omaha, Nebraska.

A sister, Anna, died in 1940.