WILLIAM H. STORK FUNERAL SET FOR GOOD FRIDAY

Funeral services for William H. Stork, 86, will be held with services at the home at 1:30, and 2 p.m. Good Friday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church north of Arlington, of which he was a life-long member. The Rev. Carl Hellmann will officiate with interment to be in the church cemetery.

Mr. Stork died Monday at his farm home north of Arlington.

He was born in Washington County near Orum, Nebr., Febr. 4, 1878. He was baptized February 24, 1878 and confirmed in the Christian faith March 22, 1891. He was married Febr. 19, 1902 to Louisa Kroeger of Beemer, Nebraska at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church north of Arlington by the Sainted Rev. J. Hilgendorf. Mrs. Stork preceded him in death in 1952.

Eight children were born to this union. Four died in infancy. Surviving are four sons, Edward, Herbert, Leonard and Walter, all of Arlington; eight grandchildren; nine great-granchildren; one brother, August of Arlington; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Gnuse of Arlington, Mrs. Lizzie Dahlkoetter of Grant, Nebraska; and a host of nieces and nephews, relatives and friends.

The Reckmeyer Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

# 2 - - from his funeral service folder:

In Memory of WILLIAM H. STORK, Born, February 4, 1878, Arlington, Nebraska - Entered into Rest, March 23, 1964, Arlington, Nebraska

SERVICES HELD, Friday, March 27, 1964, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Arlington, Nebraska

CLERGYMAN, Rev. Carl Hellmann, Arlington, Nebraska

MUSIC, Hymn by Congregation, No. 589, “Oh, How Blest Are Ye Whose Toils are Ended;” Song by Choir, “I Fall Asleep in Jesus’ Wounds;” Hymn by Congregation, No. 587 “Asleep in Jesus, Blesses Sleep;” Mr. George Bluma, Organist

PLACE OF INTERMENT, St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Arlington, Nebraska

CASKETBEARERS, Harry Dahlkoetter, Lawrence Gnuse, Gilbert Stork, Allard Stork, Everett Stork, Harlan Stork

CROSSING THE BAR Sunset and evening star; And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the Bar When I put out to sea, For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot - - face to face, When I have crost the bar. Tennyson ~~~Obituary and funeral leaflet courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska~~~

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