Charles Bade
| Date of Interment or Death | 03/15/1923 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 10-3-2s |
Obituary
BURIAL SERVICES HELD YESTERDAY FOR CHAS. G. BADE ONCE MAYOR OF WAHPETON DIED TUESDAY MORNING AFTER SHORT ILLNESS DAUGHTERS IN GERMANY UNAWARE OF FATHER’S DEATH
Funeral Conducted from Church He Helped Build and Where He Had Served as Official From the little German Lutheran church which he had helped build and where he had worshipped for many years, funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Charles G. Bade, once mayor of Wahpeton and resident of this city since the early eighties. Mr. Bade died shortly before noon Tuesday. His death was caused by heart disease. He had been afflicted with inflammation of the outer covering of the heart for some time, but only became seriously ill the night preceding his death and the previous day he had spent at his office, doing his usual work. Mr. Bade was 59 years old. He was born December 13, 1863 in a suburb of the city of Hanover, Germany. He was hardly more than 20 years old when he came as an immigrant to America. For several months he worked in Brooklyn to earn money to make his way west and in 1884 or ’85 he came out to Dakota Territory, locating in Wahpeton. Was County Auditor Here Mr. Bade, then only a youth, worked himself to the position of deputy auditor in the county courthouse and eventually he was elected county auditor, an office which he held for several years. Leaving the public office, Mr. Bade entered the real estate business and also conducted a jewelry store at the place where the Billings café is now located. Before he came to this country, he had become affianced to a young German girl and in 1890, or thereabouts, he went back to Germany to claim her as his bride. Coming again to Wahpeton, this time with his wife, Mr. Bade purchased a home on Fourth street, which has since become the property of the F. D. Crossen family and is occupied by them, and in 1900 or 1901 he formed a partnership with Atty. Chas. E. Wolfe. The partnership existed for 8 years when Mr. Bade sold out his interests to F. B. Schneller and took his family, now consisting of himself, his wife, two sons and two daughters, back to Germany to finish the education of his children in European colleges. The three oldest children had been graduated from Wahpeton high school. The study of architecture and building was taken up by the older son, Charles Bade, and electrical engineering by Walter. An acquaintance of the family reports that in 1912 or ’13 the father and the two sons came back to the
United States, the boys desiring to take up post-graduate work here before settling down to careers. They entered the University of Illinois and ultimately were graduated from that place.
Managed Lidgerwood Company At this time, Mr. Bade went to Lidgerwood and purchased interests in the Movius Land & Loan company, which has connections with the First National Bank of Lidgerwood, and was managing the company when in 1914 the war in Europe broke out. It is reported that Mr. Bade then hastened to Germany to escort Mrs. Bade and the two girls, who had remained there to finish their college work, back to America, but finding his wife’s mother in failing health he remained there through the winter. Attempting to leave Germany the following spring, the report is that Mr. Bade was interned as an alien and his property seized by the warring country. This property included practically all his money and with little funds with which to keep up himself and his family, he was obliged to remain in Europe throughout the war. By way of Switzerland, Mr. Bade got back to America in the spring of 1919 and a few months later, his wife and daughter, Hazel, joined him here.
Daughters in Germany At the rites held yesterday, the chief mourners were the widow and two sons. Of the latter, Charles had come
from Elk River, Minn., where he is connected with a bank, and Walter, from Minneapolis, where he does electrical work. The two daughters are in Germany, one having married a Hanover architect and the other, Hazel having gone there last Fall to be with her sister. It is reported that she is to wed there this summer. The pallbearers were Elmer Myhra, J. P. Reeder, W. J. Dietz, H. F. Holthusen, Orton Gifford and Herman Junge. Burial was in Fairview cemetery.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.