Funeral services for Herman Oscar Ferdinand Abraham, 74, retired shipping department employee at The Thomas D. Murphy Company
, here, will be held Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. at the Perryman-Nelson Chapel here.
A native of Sweden, he came to Red Oak at the age of 5 on December 12, 1891 and had lived here since. He died this morning at his home, 209 Second Avenue, after an extended illness.
The Rev. Raymond Johnson will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery here.
The son of Emanuel and Johanna Abraham, he was born February 15, 1998 in Smoland, Sweden and was married in Page County, Iowa on January 15, 1915 to Anna Fredrickson, who survives here. He was a member of the First Covenant Church.
Other survivors include a son, Herman Jr., Council Bluffs; daughter, Mrs. Theodore Buckley, Red Oak; sister, Mrs. Joe Johnson, Essex; two brothers, Frank of Pilot Mound and Claus, Essex; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, March 2, 1961, page 5
Funeral services for Herman Oscar Ferdinand Abraham, 74, retired shipping department employee at The Thomas D. Murphy Company
, here, will be held Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. at the Perryman-Nelson Chapel here.
A native of Sweden, he came to Red Oak at the age of 5 on December 12, 1891 and had lived here since. He died this morning at his home, 209 Second Avenue, after an extended illness.
The Rev. Raymond Johnson will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery here.
The son of Emanuel and Johanna Abraham, he was born February 15, 1998 in Smoland, Sweden and was married in Page County, Iowa on January 15, 1915 to Anna Fredrickson, who survives here. He was a member of the First Covenant Church.
Other survivors include a son, Herman Jr., Council Bluffs; daughter, Mrs. Theodore Buckley, Red Oak; sister, Mrs. Joe Johnson, Essex; two brothers, Frank of Pilot Mound and Claus, Essex; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, March 2, 1961, page 5
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