Rudolph Bentzin
| Date of Interment or Death | 01/05/1955 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 11-5-1 |
Obituary
R. A. Bentzin Rites Tuesday in Wahpeton
Funeral services for R. A. Bentzin, who died Sunday morning at St. Francis hospital following several months illness, will be held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock from First Congregational church in this city. Rev. Frank Hirons will officiate and interment will be in Fairview Mausoleum.
The body will lie in state at Vertin Funeral home Monday afternoon and evening and until noon Tuesday. Pallbearers will be Herald Nunns, Calmer Carlson, Glenn Hoppert, Alfred Johnsgaard, Leo Gilles and Charles Deissler.
Rudolph Albert Bentzin, known for many years in the Wahpeton-Breckenridge community in railway maintenance circles, was born in Niechlenbeurg-Strehhiltz, Germany, April 5, 1865. At about the age of five years, he came to America with his parents and two sisters. His people settled in the Watertown, Wisconsin area in about 1870 where his family farmed. Here he received his common school education in a German Lutheran parochial school. At an early age, he was an apprentice carpenter to his father who taught him the carpenter’s trade. This experience formed the basis of his work as a master railway carpenter, which he made his career, from the time he was in his early twenties.
In 1888 he was united in marriage to Emma Louise Beese at Watertown, Wisconsin. In 1898 they moved to Breckenridge, Minnesota having received a position as master carpenter on the old Breckenridge division. After living for less than one year in Breckenridge, the family moved to Everett, Washington and from there to Hare, Montana. While in Everett on the Cascade division, Mr. Bentzin took part in the building of the early Cascade tunnel when the change was made on the railway from the switch back method of getting over the mountains, in the early part of the century. The Bentzin family moved finally to Wahpeton in 1910 where they made their home until Mrs. Bentzin’s death in 1928. Late in 1929, Mr. Bentzin was married to Mrs. Charles Bentzin’s, his brother’s widow.
They continued to live in Wahpeton for a year and a half and then in 1931 moved to Watertown where they made their home until Mrs. Bentzin’s death in April, 1954. Since then Mr. Bentzin has made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Clarence Bateman of Wahpeton, North Dakota.
The other two surviving children are Mrs. Leo H. Dominick of International Falls, Minnesota and Miss Clara E. Bentzin of Willmar, Minnesota. Besides the three daughters, three brothers survive him, William, Henry and Frank.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.