Fred A. Leus, aged 62 years, died at his home nine miles north of Verden early Friday morning from apoplexy. He had seemed in the best of health the day before his death. About three o'clock Friday morning, Mrs. Leus hearing a strangling sound from the bed in which her husband was sleeping, rushed to his bedside to find him in a dying condition. He died before members of the family could be called.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Virtus Gloe, of Ponca City, former pastor of the Lutheran church in this city, and Rev. H. F. Schaff, pastor of the Chickasha Lutheran church. Burial occurred at Anadarko.
Mr. Leus was born in Nitzaw, Germany, he came to the United States when he was a young man and settled in Texas. He came to Oklahoma in 1908. He is survived by his wife and ten children, Eno, Selma, Wilhelm, Henry, Ella, Karl, and Vera, all of Verden, Earnest of Texas, Herman of Lincoln, Nebraska, Mrs. Erna Wegner of Kansas.
Fred A. Leus, aged 62 years, died at his home nine miles north of Verden early Friday morning from apoplexy. He had seemed in the best of health the day before his death. About three o'clock Friday morning, Mrs. Leus hearing a strangling sound from the bed in which her husband was sleeping, rushed to his bedside to find him in a dying condition. He died before members of the family could be called.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Virtus Gloe, of Ponca City, former pastor of the Lutheran church in this city, and Rev. H. F. Schaff, pastor of the Chickasha Lutheran church. Burial occurred at Anadarko.
Mr. Leus was born in Nitzaw, Germany, he came to the United States when he was a young man and settled in Texas. He came to Oklahoma in 1908. He is survived by his wife and ten children, Eno, Selma, Wilhelm, Henry, Ella, Karl, and Vera, all of Verden, Earnest of Texas, Herman of Lincoln, Nebraska, Mrs. Erna Wegner of Kansas.
Family Members
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Ernest Albert Richter
1890–1935
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Eddy Leus
1893–1906
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Enno H Leus
1894–1958
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Selma Friedricke Leus Schulz
1896–1981
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Martin Gustav Leus
1897–1897
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Erna Adelheid Leus Wegner
1898–1958
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Herman Gustav "Slim" Lewis
1900–1984
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William Carl Leus
1901–1966
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Henry Hugo Leus
1902–1958
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Ella Anna Leus Eakins
1904–1978
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Karl August Leus
1914–1971
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Vera Katherine Leus Mall
1920–1967
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