Floyd, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Menking, farmers living northwest of town, died at the good Samaritan hospital in Fremont at five o’clock on Tuesday morning from injuries which he received on Saturday afternoon when he fell from a tractor on which he was riding with his father. In making the turn at the corner, when he raised the plow, the wheel of the tractor slipped into a furrow and the jar threw the lad from the tractor in front of the running cutter. The wheel passed over his abdomen and end of the plow cut a gash in his side. A trained nurse cared for him until Sunday, when he was taken to the Fremont hospital. Death was caused from internal injuries which resulted from the wheel passing over him. The cut in his side was only a minor injury. Floyd was the eldest of five sons of Mr. and Mrs. Menking, and was born on April 10th, 1921. He attended the Arlington schools, and was to enter high school on the morning he died. He is survived by his parents, four brothers, Calvin, Richard, Paul and Wilber, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kruger and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Helen Menking. Funeral arrangements had not been made pending word from relatives.

#2-12 Sept., 1935 - The Enterprise

FLOYD L. MENKING SERVICE HELD

Funeral services for Floyd Louis Menking, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Menking of Arlington, who died Tuesday of last week from injuries which he received when he fell from a tractor on his father’s farm on Saturday, were held at the home on Thursday afternoon, September 5th at 2:00 o’clock with the Rev. G. W. Wolter in charge of the services.

The room was filled with the many floral offerings from many friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schnackenburg sang “The Twenty Third Psalm” and “Jesus Lover of My Soul”. The pallbearers were uncles and were Chet Menking, R.A Menking, A.C. Menking, J.W. Timperly, Floyd Wikenson and Lawrence Hall.

Among the out of town relatives who attended the funeral rites were Messrs. and Mesdames R.A. Menking and son of Lincoln, A.C. Menking and son, Robert, of Omaha, J.W. Timperly of Madison, Curtis Dixon of Blair, Lloyd Akin of Kennard, Earl Brown of Omaha, Arthur Heuermann of Fremont, John Hartman of Athena, Kansas, Mrs. Roddy and daughter of Union, George Menking of Blair, Fred Hartman and Mrs. Milton Gumming of Athena, Kansas.

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

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