Obituary Record

Christian Frederick Holstein
Died on 5/31/1930
Buried in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery

Printed in The Pilot-Tribune (Blair, Nebraska) · 5 Jun 1930, Thu · Page 1

County Pioneer Dies Saturday

Christian Holstein Lived in Washington County 63 Years

Christian Frederick Holstein was born March 20, 1840, on one of the West India islands, now known as the Virgin Islands, and died at his home last Saturday. He enjoyed the best of health until about a month ago when he took cold which later developed into pneumonia.

Mr. Holstein was sent to Copenhagen to receive his education when he was five years of age and when he was twenty-seven he came to America, locating on a homestead in Washington County where he has made his home for the past sixty-three years. In 1872 he was married to Christina Paulsen and to this union eleven children were born, nine of whom survive him. Mr. Holstein had lived in Washington County for many years and held a wide acquaintance of friends all of whom thought very highly of him.

Surviving him are his bereaved wife, nine children, Julius of Tracy, Minn.; Mrs. Henry Newkirk of Winner, So. Dad.; Sam of Washington, Nebr.; and Fred, Victor, Ed and Dewey Holstein, and Mrs. Mae Cameron and Mrs. Vic Skov of this county.

Funeral services were conducted from the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Orum on Monday afternoon with Rev. P.J. Reinertsen, pastor of the church, and Rev. Knud Larsen, formerly of Kennard officiating, after which interment was made in the Orum cemetery.

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

FindaGrave # 189810545

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 6/5/1930


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