Interred September 14, 1951.
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LeMars Semi Weekly Sentinel, IA, Friday, September 14, 1951, p1, c2
Death Claims L. S. Wernli
Head of Sioux City Firm Le Mars Native
A heart attack Wednesday claimed the life of L. S. Wernli, 75, Le Mars Native and president of the Hansen Glass and Paint Co. of Sioux City.
Mr. Wernli suffered a stroke about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning while at work at his office. He was taken to a hospital and died within two hours.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas Episcopal church. Rev. Francis B. Shaner will officiate. Burial will be in Logan park cemetery under the direction of Perasso Bros. funeral home.
Mr. Wernli was born September 7, 1876 (sic/1878), at Le Mars, Ia. He was one of the family of 17 children. In 1900 he went to Sioux City to work as a clerk in a drug store. He married Marie Hansen of Sioux City April 23, 1907.
He attended elementary and high schools at Le Mars and enrolled in the normal school here with the intention of becoming a teacher. The normal school later became Western Union college, now Westmar college.
He was forced to quit school while in his teens and seek employment. His first position was at a Le Mars drug store, where he worked as an ice cream maker at $2 a week. Later he borrowed money from an older brother to attend the Chicago College of Pharmacy.
After graduation he returned to Le Mars, where he was a drug clerk before going to Sioux City to work on the night shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., at a basement drug store operated by C. Ellis Nichols at Fourth and Nebraska streets.
Then he became manager of the Hansen drug store at Fourth and Douglas streets. About nine months later he went on the road as a salesman for Eli Lilly Co., manufacturers of drug and pharmaceutical supplies.
As a salesman he spent the greater part of his time introducing new medical preparations to doctors of the horse and buggy era. Later he was promoted to a position as sales manager of the company.
About 1910, on the suggestion of his father-in-law, he took over a part interest in the glass and paint company of which he later became secretary-treasurer and eventually president, which post he held at the time of his death.
He was active in civic and welfare work there. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1943, and was awarded the Kiwanis club medal for distinguished community service in 1923.
Mr. Wernli in 1933 became Woodbury county relief administrator. After several years of service in that capacity he also was named chairman of the Woodbury county social security and social welfare board. For eight years he was chairman of the Iowa emergency relief board.
Survivors in addition to the widow are a son, L. S. Wernli, Jr., of Sioux City; a daughter, Mrs. D. T. Barns of Kansas City; two brothers, Otto of Hudson, O., and Frank of Hudson, Wis.; four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Schaefer and Mrs. Clara Francis, both of Berea, O., Mrs. Elsie Livingston of Paullina, and Mrs. Connie Haas of Le Mars, and four grandchildren.
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LeMars Semi Weekly Sentinel, IA, Friday, September 14, 1951, p1, c2
Death Claims L. S. Wernli
Head of Sioux City Firm Le Mars Native
A heart attack Wednesday claimed the life of L. S. Wernli, 75, Le Mars Native and president of the Hansen Glass and Paint Co. of Sioux City.
Mr. Wernli suffered a stroke about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning while at work at his office. He was taken to a hospital and died within two hours.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas Episcopal church. Rev. Francis B. Shaner will officiate. Burial will be in Logan park cemetery under the direction of Perasso Bros. funeral home.
Mr. Wernli was born September 7, 1876 (sic/1878), at Le Mars, Ia. He was one of the family of 17 children. In 1900 he went to Sioux City to work as a clerk in a drug store. He married Marie Hansen of Sioux City April 23, 1907.
He attended elementary and high schools at Le Mars and enrolled in the normal school here with the intention of becoming a teacher. The normal school later became Western Union college, now Westmar college.
He was forced to quit school while in his teens and seek employment. His first position was at a Le Mars drug store, where he worked as an ice cream maker at $2 a week. Later he borrowed money from an older brother to attend the Chicago College of Pharmacy.
After graduation he returned to Le Mars, where he was a drug clerk before going to Sioux City to work on the night shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., at a basement drug store operated by C. Ellis Nichols at Fourth and Nebraska streets.
Then he became manager of the Hansen drug store at Fourth and Douglas streets. About nine months later he went on the road as a salesman for Eli Lilly Co., manufacturers of drug and pharmaceutical supplies.
As a salesman he spent the greater part of his time introducing new medical preparations to doctors of the horse and buggy era. Later he was promoted to a position as sales manager of the company.
About 1910, on the suggestion of his father-in-law, he took over a part interest in the glass and paint company of which he later became secretary-treasurer and eventually president, which post he held at the time of his death.
He was active in civic and welfare work there. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1943, and was awarded the Kiwanis club medal for distinguished community service in 1923.
Mr. Wernli in 1933 became Woodbury county relief administrator. After several years of service in that capacity he also was named chairman of the Woodbury county social security and social welfare board. For eight years he was chairman of the Iowa emergency relief board.
Survivors in addition to the widow are a son, L. S. Wernli, Jr., of Sioux City; a daughter, Mrs. D. T. Barns of Kansas City; two brothers, Otto of Hudson, O., and Frank of Hudson, Wis.; four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Schaefer and Mrs. Clara Francis, both of Berea, O., Mrs. Elsie Livingston of Paullina, and Mrs. Connie Haas of Le Mars, and four grandchildren.
Interred September 14, 1951.
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LeMars Semi Weekly Sentinel, IA, Friday, September 14, 1951, p1, c2
Death Claims L. S. Wernli
Head of Sioux City Firm Le Mars Native
A heart attack Wednesday claimed the life of L. S. Wernli, 75, Le Mars Native and president of the Hansen Glass and Paint Co. of Sioux City.
Mr. Wernli suffered a stroke about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning while at work at his office. He was taken to a hospital and died within two hours.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas Episcopal church. Rev. Francis B. Shaner will officiate. Burial will be in Logan park cemetery under the direction of Perasso Bros. funeral home.
Mr. Wernli was born September 7, 1876 (sic/1878), at Le Mars, Ia. He was one of the family of 17 children. In 1900 he went to Sioux City to work as a clerk in a drug store. He married Marie Hansen of Sioux City April 23, 1907.
He attended elementary and high schools at Le Mars and enrolled in the normal school here with the intention of becoming a teacher. The normal school later became Western Union college, now Westmar college.
He was forced to quit school while in his teens and seek employment. His first position was at a Le Mars drug store, where he worked as an ice cream maker at $2 a week. Later he borrowed money from an older brother to attend the Chicago College of Pharmacy.
After graduation he returned to Le Mars, where he was a drug clerk before going to Sioux City to work on the night shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., at a basement drug store operated by C. Ellis Nichols at Fourth and Nebraska streets.
Then he became manager of the Hansen drug store at Fourth and Douglas streets. About nine months later he went on the road as a salesman for Eli Lilly Co., manufacturers of drug and pharmaceutical supplies.
As a salesman he spent the greater part of his time introducing new medical preparations to doctors of the horse and buggy era. Later he was promoted to a position as sales manager of the company.
About 1910, on the suggestion of his father-in-law, he took over a part interest in the glass and paint company of which he later became secretary-treasurer and eventually president, which post he held at the time of his death.
He was active in civic and welfare work there. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1943, and was awarded the Kiwanis club medal for distinguished community service in 1923.
Mr. Wernli in 1933 became Woodbury county relief administrator. After several years of service in that capacity he also was named chairman of the Woodbury county social security and social welfare board. For eight years he was chairman of the Iowa emergency relief board.
Survivors in addition to the widow are a son, L. S. Wernli, Jr., of Sioux City; a daughter, Mrs. D. T. Barns of Kansas City; two brothers, Otto of Hudson, O., and Frank of Hudson, Wis.; four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Schaefer and Mrs. Clara Francis, both of Berea, O., Mrs. Elsie Livingston of Paullina, and Mrs. Connie Haas of Le Mars, and four grandchildren.
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LeMars Semi Weekly Sentinel, IA, Friday, September 14, 1951, p1, c2
Death Claims L. S. Wernli
Head of Sioux City Firm Le Mars Native
A heart attack Wednesday claimed the life of L. S. Wernli, 75, Le Mars Native and president of the Hansen Glass and Paint Co. of Sioux City.
Mr. Wernli suffered a stroke about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning while at work at his office. He was taken to a hospital and died within two hours.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas Episcopal church. Rev. Francis B. Shaner will officiate. Burial will be in Logan park cemetery under the direction of Perasso Bros. funeral home.
Mr. Wernli was born September 7, 1876 (sic/1878), at Le Mars, Ia. He was one of the family of 17 children. In 1900 he went to Sioux City to work as a clerk in a drug store. He married Marie Hansen of Sioux City April 23, 1907.
He attended elementary and high schools at Le Mars and enrolled in the normal school here with the intention of becoming a teacher. The normal school later became Western Union college, now Westmar college.
He was forced to quit school while in his teens and seek employment. His first position was at a Le Mars drug store, where he worked as an ice cream maker at $2 a week. Later he borrowed money from an older brother to attend the Chicago College of Pharmacy.
After graduation he returned to Le Mars, where he was a drug clerk before going to Sioux City to work on the night shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., at a basement drug store operated by C. Ellis Nichols at Fourth and Nebraska streets.
Then he became manager of the Hansen drug store at Fourth and Douglas streets. About nine months later he went on the road as a salesman for Eli Lilly Co., manufacturers of drug and pharmaceutical supplies.
As a salesman he spent the greater part of his time introducing new medical preparations to doctors of the horse and buggy era. Later he was promoted to a position as sales manager of the company.
About 1910, on the suggestion of his father-in-law, he took over a part interest in the glass and paint company of which he later became secretary-treasurer and eventually president, which post he held at the time of his death.
He was active in civic and welfare work there. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1943, and was awarded the Kiwanis club medal for distinguished community service in 1923.
Mr. Wernli in 1933 became Woodbury county relief administrator. After several years of service in that capacity he also was named chairman of the Woodbury county social security and social welfare board. For eight years he was chairman of the Iowa emergency relief board.
Survivors in addition to the widow are a son, L. S. Wernli, Jr., of Sioux City; a daughter, Mrs. D. T. Barns of Kansas City; two brothers, Otto of Hudson, O., and Frank of Hudson, Wis.; four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Schaefer and Mrs. Clara Francis, both of Berea, O., Mrs. Elsie Livingston of Paullina, and Mrs. Connie Haas of Le Mars, and four grandchildren.
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