Funeral services for August Gruhn, 57, well-known Manilla businessman, were held at the Presbyterian Church in Manilla Tuesday at 2 p.m. following services at the home at 1:30. The Rev. Dr. H.J. Timmer, pastor, conducted the rites.

Burial was in the Manning Cemetery. Pallbearers were Howard Hayes, John Nieman, Ernest D. Sutherland, Peder Rasmussen, Lynn McCracken, and Raymond Larby.

Mr. Gruhn's death occurred suddenly at this home at 8:30 Saturday morning, June 1, 1946, following a short illness. Mr. and Mrs. Gruhn returned Thursday evening from Los Angeles, California, where they had visited his sister, Mrs. Bertha Quill, who is seriously ill. He suffered a heart attack on the train while en route to Manilla.

Mr. Gruhn was born at Waltersdorf, Germany, May 7, 1889, the son of Mr. and Mrs. August Gruhn. He came with his parents to this country when two years old and settled at Manning. Here he received his education and grew to manhood.

At the age of 18, he began his first business venture and opened a restaurant in Manning.

He was married to Miss Minnie Ranniger August 28, 1912. At that time he was associated with E.S. Babcock in the real estate business in Manning.

In 1915, Mr. and Mrs. Gruhn moved to a 2800 acre ranch at Coon Rapids. Partners in the venture were Lewis Babcock and Gruhn. This partnership was dissolved in 1918. At that time they purchased a farm near Manilla and have resided in the same community since that time.

Mr. Gruhn was baptized in the Lutheran faith as an infant. In 1930 he became a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Manilla and at the time of his death was president of the board of trustees.

He has been active in farm bureau work and served as president several times. He was a member of the Manilla school board for nine years and was president, giving his oldest daughter, Margaret, her diploma.

In his youth he was a member of the Manning Fire department and the department running team. He won several state medals for coupling. He played baseball with the Manning team fur a number of years and has been an active league bowler since 1943.

Mr. Gruhn had spent more than 25 years studying, improving, and producing seed corn. He produced a strain of open pollinated corn known as Gruhn's Yellow Dent, previous to his work with Hybrid Seed Corn. In 1937, he began the production of hybrid seed corn with a seed field of 20 acres. For several years he was on the state Seed Corn Certification Rules Committee and was on the certification advertising committee until 1946. Today the Hybrid Seed Corn company, founded by August Gruhn, has one of the most modern drying and processing plants in Iowa with 640 acres planted to Hybrid seed fields.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Fred of Chicago and Herman of San Francisco.

He is survived by his wife, Minnie, and children, Luverne of Manilla, Mrs. Raymond Ohde (Margaret) of Manning, Lewis, Norman, and Gene at home, Mrs. Leo J. Seib (Ethel) of Evansville, Indiana, and Lyle of the United States Army in Germany; brothers, Edward of Portland, Oregon, Colonel E.W. Gruhn of Washington D.C., and Charles of Manning; sisters, Minnie Riffey and Bertha Quill of Angeles and Mae McFarland of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He had five grandchildren, Roger Ohde, Manning, Mary Lee, Norman, and Tommy Seib of Evansville, Indiana, and Wayne Gruhn of Manilla.

Out-of-state relatives attending the services were Mrs. Mae McFarland of Tulsa, Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Seib and children of Evansville, Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Koester and Leone of Glenville, Minnesota.

A large number of relatives, friends and business associates from great distances attended the rites.

Mr. Gruhn was an active supporter of the Manning Poultry show association.

His brother, Colonel Gruhn, deputy director at Intelligence at Washington, D.C., who had Just returned from a mission to Germany and will leave on a mission to Japan. June 17, was unable to be present due to the illness of his wife.