Herman Niederkruger a prominent young farmer of Grant Township died at the Nicholas Senn Hospital on New Years day from cancer of the stomach of which he had been a sufferer the latter part of the past year. He underwent two surgical operations with a hope of relief but to no avail. He was born on the farm where he has resided during the thirty-five years of his life on April 2, 1882. On June 12, 1907, he was married to Miss Bertha Wachter, of Herman, to which three children, one son and two daughters, who together with the sorrowing widow survive him as close relatives. The funeral services were held from the Bell Creek Lutheran Church on Friday, January 4th, with Rev. L. Grauenhorst officiating and amid a large circle of friends and mourners. The remains were laid to rest in the cemetery near the church.

#2-Published in the Tribune January 10, 1918

Herman Niederkruger of Near Herman Dead

The entire community received a shock Wednesday when the report reached Herman of the untimely death of Herman Niederkruger, a young and highly respected citizen of the Bell Creek neighborhood.

Death occurred on New Year’s night, following an operation for cancer of the stomach at the Nicholas Senn Hospital in Omaha.

Mr. Niederkruger had been in failing health for the past year, and had previously undergone an operation at the hospital just a few days before his death.

His sunny smile and charming disposition won for him the love of all who knew him, and in the death of Herman Niederkruger, Washington County looses one of its best citizens and his family a kind and devoted husband and father. They sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved relatives in their hour of sorrow.

Herman Niederkruger was born on the farm homesteaded by his father, and the place that had always been his home on April 2, 1882, and died at the Nicholas Seen hospital in Omaha, January 1, 1918.

On January 12, 1907, he was married to Bertha Wachter, and to this union three children were born, Elmer, aged 9; Helen, aged 6; and Mabel, aged 2, who which their mother are left to mourn his departure.

Besides these he left three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Sprick of Hooper, Mrs. Henry Meier of Herman, and Mrs. William Gosker of Arlington.

Funeral services were conducted from the German Lutheran church where he had been a member since childhood, on Friday, January 4, and interment was made in the Lutheran Cemetery.~~~Herman Record

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