At his home in Arlington, after a lingering illness of several months, Mr. Franzenburg passed away surrounded by his sorrowing family. He had been ailing ever since last winter, but the best of medical skill could not stay the hand of the grim visitor. Interment at the Arlington cemetery Tuesday afternoon from the Congregational church. Claus Franzenburg was born in Germany in 1858 and came to America in 1880 and was married in 1883. He served four years in the German army before coming to the United States. During his residence in Arlington he was engaged in stock buying and keeping a meat market. He was acknowledged to have been one of the best judges of livestock ever in this part of the country, this knowledge standing him well in hand while following his business. He was a man of progressive ideas, at all times believing in the future of Arlington and doing his utmost to advance the interests of the town. The deceased leaves a wife and two children to mourn his untimely death. His mother, over 83 years old, lives in Germany, and it will be an easy matter to imagine the shock that his mother will receive when the news of her son’s death reaches her from a far-off land. Four sisters and two brothers, all living in the Fatherland, also survive him. Mr. Franzenburg had a large circle of friends, all of whom unite in deploring his death, and extend to the sorrowing family a full measure of that sympathy which flows from the heart of all who knew him.

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

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