Son of Christian and Bertha (Schmechel) Zorn, he was born April 14, 1878, in Falls City, Nebraska, and had lived in Merriam thirteen years.
Mr. Zorn was a night superintendent in the sheep division of the Kansas City stockyards before retiring because of ill health in 1944.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Marie (Hammer) Zorn of the home; two sons, Walter Zorn, San Francisco, and Fred C. Zorn, Falls City; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Majerus and Mrs. Edna Andrus, both of Falls City, and four grandchildren.