FORMER BLAIR MAN DIES

Carl J. Lindstrom of Fremont, for many years an employee of the Chicago & North Western Railway died at a Fremont hospital Sunday morning following an operation a few days previously.

Blair people who remember Mr. Lindstrom will recall that he married a Blair girl, Miss Julia Meservey, who was teaching in the city schools at the time of her marriage in 1904. He was in the employ of the railroad company here at the time.

In 1910 he suffered a breakdown in health and they located in Fremont, establishing the Lindstrom Inn with which a number of Blair people are familiar. Since 1912 Mr. Lindstrom has been blind.

A native of Sweden where he was born Oct. 26, 1864, Mr. Lindstrom came to the United States when nineteen years of age.

He is survived by his wife, two brothers and two sisters and a number of other relatives. Funeral services were held in Fremont Tuesday.

#2-25 Apr., 1929 - The Pilot-Tribune

CARL LINDSTROM DIES AT FREMONT

Former Blair Station Agent Dies Following Illness Carl J. Lindstrom, who served as station agent for the Chicago Northwestern Railway Co. in this city died at a Fremont hospital early last Sunday morning. He was taken seriously ill Friday night and rushed to the hospital where an operation was performed, but despite all that could be done for him, his condition gradually declined until his death Sunday. Mr. Lindstrom had been retired from the railway since 1910 when he suffered a breakdown in health. Since 1912 he had been blind and confined to his home most of the time.

A native of Sweden, where he was born October 26, 1864, he came to the United States when he was 19 years of age. In 1894 he entered the employ of the Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha railways as a station clerk and later as a station agent. He served that company, and later the Northwestern at Blair, Norfolk, Maskell and Jackson.

While at Blair in 1904, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia Meservey, who then was a teacher in the city schools. After his retirement from the railway in 1910 they moved to Fremont where they have since resided.

Surviving him are his wife, two brothers, Julius of St. Louis, Mo., and Knute, a newspaper man in Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Streblow of Lakeview, Wash., and Mrs. Harry Francis of Hawarden, Iowa. Funeral services were conducted from the Fremont Methodist church on Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. F. E. Pfoutz officiating, after which interment was made in Fremont cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~

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