Ed Japp, a lifelong resident of Kennard, died last Saturday at the Good Shepherd Home, in Blair. He had been born at Kennard, had grown up there and had farmed in the nearby area all of his life until retirement. For a number of years after retiring from farming he lived in Kennard but for the past three years he has been a resident of the Good Shepherd Home in Blair.

Otto Edward Japp was born at Kennard March 18, 1886 and was 88 years of age at the time of his death. He never married. He farmed a place near Kennard and was a familiar figure about the community all of his active life. He was the son of the late John Japp and Catherine Wiese, early-day pioneers of the Kennard vicinity.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Bertha Anderson, of Blair and by a brother, Ernest Japp of Gillette, Wyoming.

Funeral services were held at the Emmaus Lutheran Church at Kennard on Tuesday, April 18th. The Rev. Joseph Myers conducted the service and burial was made in the German Cemetery in the south part of Washington County under the direction of the Campbell Mortuary.

Pallbearers were Howard Cook, Merle Andersen, Ray Rosenbaum, Harlan Christensen, Lyle Rosenbaum and Howard Kubie.