Fritz Al Carlson
Fritz Carlson Dies Sunday
Funeral Wednesday For Composer
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Augustana Lutheran Church for Fritz Al Carlson, 77, composer of the song, "Omaha," who died Sunday in an Omaha Hospital.
Mr. Carlson, of Route 1, North One Hundred Sixty-eighth Street, was a 42-year veteran of Omaha music, directing Ak-Sar-Ben den shows in the 1930's, several Omaha church choirs, and the Orpheum Chorus in the 1920's.
A native of Marshalltown, Ia., he came to Omaha in 1902 when his father founded what is now Augustana Lutheran Church.
He was graduated from Bethany College of Fine Arts in Lindsborg, Kans. and taught music in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Kansas City, Kans. He returned to Omaha in 1919.
He was a member of the Concord Club and the Kiwanis Club and had been a funeral director in Omaha since 1933.
He is survived by his wife, Doretta; son John V. and step-daughter Mrs. Stanley (Norma Jean) Parker, all of Omaha; sisters Mrs. Leonard (Ruth) Newman of Denver, and Mrs. Arne (Helen) Tellander of Los Angeles.
Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Fritz Carlson Dies Sunday
Funeral Wednesday For Composer
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Augustana Lutheran Church for Fritz Al Carlson, 77, composer of the song, "Omaha," who died Sunday in an Omaha Hospital.
Mr. Carlson, of Route 1, North One Hundred Sixty-eighth Street, was a 42-year veteran of Omaha music, directing Ak-Sar-Ben den shows in the 1930's, several Omaha church choirs, and the Orpheum Chorus in the 1920's.
A native of Marshalltown, Ia., he came to Omaha in 1902 when his father founded what is now Augustana Lutheran Church.
He was graduated from Bethany College of Fine Arts in Lindsborg, Kans. and taught music in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Kansas City, Kans. He returned to Omaha in 1919.
He was a member of the Concord Club and the Kiwanis Club and had been a funeral director in Omaha since 1933.
He is survived by his wife, Doretta; son John V. and step-daughter Mrs. Stanley (Norma Jean) Parker, all of Omaha; sisters Mrs. Leonard (Ruth) Newman of Denver, and Mrs. Arne (Helen) Tellander of Los Angeles.
Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Fritz Al Carlson
Fritz Carlson Dies Sunday
Funeral Wednesday For Composer
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Augustana Lutheran Church for Fritz Al Carlson, 77, composer of the song, "Omaha," who died Sunday in an Omaha Hospital.
Mr. Carlson, of Route 1, North One Hundred Sixty-eighth Street, was a 42-year veteran of Omaha music, directing Ak-Sar-Ben den shows in the 1930's, several Omaha church choirs, and the Orpheum Chorus in the 1920's.
A native of Marshalltown, Ia., he came to Omaha in 1902 when his father founded what is now Augustana Lutheran Church.
He was graduated from Bethany College of Fine Arts in Lindsborg, Kans. and taught music in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Kansas City, Kans. He returned to Omaha in 1919.
He was a member of the Concord Club and the Kiwanis Club and had been a funeral director in Omaha since 1933.
He is survived by his wife, Doretta; son John V. and step-daughter Mrs. Stanley (Norma Jean) Parker, all of Omaha; sisters Mrs. Leonard (Ruth) Newman of Denver, and Mrs. Arne (Helen) Tellander of Los Angeles.
Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Fritz Carlson Dies Sunday
Funeral Wednesday For Composer
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Augustana Lutheran Church for Fritz Al Carlson, 77, composer of the song, "Omaha," who died Sunday in an Omaha Hospital.
Mr. Carlson, of Route 1, North One Hundred Sixty-eighth Street, was a 42-year veteran of Omaha music, directing Ak-Sar-Ben den shows in the 1930's, several Omaha church choirs, and the Orpheum Chorus in the 1920's.
A native of Marshalltown, Ia., he came to Omaha in 1902 when his father founded what is now Augustana Lutheran Church.
He was graduated from Bethany College of Fine Arts in Lindsborg, Kans. and taught music in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Kansas City, Kans. He returned to Omaha in 1919.
He was a member of the Concord Club and the Kiwanis Club and had been a funeral director in Omaha since 1933.
He is survived by his wife, Doretta; son John V. and step-daughter Mrs. Stanley (Norma Jean) Parker, all of Omaha; sisters Mrs. Leonard (Ruth) Newman of Denver, and Mrs. Arne (Helen) Tellander of Los Angeles.
Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
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