Mr. George Andrew Ludwig was born in Bushnell, Illinois on March 10, 1867. Most of his boyhood days were spent about the home of his birth. At the age of seventeen, he came to Nebraska with his parents. He worked with his father a great deal. He was engaged in those early days in carpenter work, later making contracting his occupation.

Mr. Ludwig was a Spanish-American War veteran.

On September 21, 1904 he was united in Holy Matrimony to Miss Dora Thea Dorbecker. About eight years ago while spending a while in California, Mr. Ludwig took sick. After about two years of illness there, they came back to Nebraska. He has been up and down for the last six years. Times would indicate that he might get well. He was able to be out and around some this past summer. It had been one of his long desires to attend services in the new church. He has been able to have that desire satisfied several times this summer.

About three weeks ago a change was noticed in his condition. Little by little the ”house” in which he lived began to give away, until on Friday of last week he became unconscious in which condition he remained until the time of his death on August 24, at 10:50 a.m.

He united with the German Methodist Church here in Arlington and came by transfer into the First Methodist Church in 1923. He remained a member of the church until the time of his death and found great comfort in the promises of the Good Book and the faith that keeps the soul. He was a man of prayer and a man who believed in the Divine Plan of the ages as created by the God eternal.

He leaves to mourn his going, his good wife, who has been so faithful in her duties to her beloved husband, caring for him with untiring zeal, giving herself for his comfort and rest and peace. Also two sisters, Mrs. Eva Grassmuech and Miss Emma Ludwig of Lincoln and one brother, Frank Ludwig of Seattle Washington.

The funeral services were held from the First Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday afternoon, August 26, 1931 at 3:00 p.m., Rev. Adrian J. Edgar officiating. Burial was in the Arlington Cemetery.

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

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