Herbert Brand
| Date of Interment or Death | 06/14/1950 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 8-4-1 |
Obituary
Dies Saturday In St. Paul
Funeral Wednesday For Wartime Ration Board Chairman
Funeral services will be held from First Congregational church Wednesday at 2 pm, for John Herbert Brand, wartime chairman of the county ration board and pioneer Richland resident, who died Saturday at Bethesda hospital in St Paul. The American Legion will conduct military rites.
Rev. J. H. Rees will officiate at the last rites and interment will be in the family lot in Fairview cemetery. The body will lie in state until 11 am, Wednesday when it will be taken to the church. Vertin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
John Herbert Brand was born at Hammond, Wis, on March 11, 1877, the eldest of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. John Peter Brand. At the age of two, he came with his parents to North Dakota where they homesteaded nine miles southwest of Wahpeton, in Mooreton township.
Mr. Brand attended Mooreton township schools, and in early manhood enrolled at the North Dakota Agricultural College at Fargo, where he attended nearly two years. On May 12, 1898, he enlisted in Co. I, 1st North Dakota Infantry. As a member of this unit he was trained for combat, and saw active duty in the Philippines, during the Spanish-American war. He was discharged in September, 1899, as a corporal.
Following his discharge he returned to his rural home and began farming.
He was united in marriage on July 9, 1906, to Miss Minnie Jost, at there home at Hammond, Wis. He returned with his bride to the North Dakota farm; to this union were born five children: Henrietta of Wahpeton, John of Chisago City, Minn., Mrs. L. C. Grass (Beatrice) of Minneapolis, Howard of Wahpeton, and Mrs. J. G. Larson (Gretchen) of Hammond.
Mrs. Brand proceeded her husband in death, in April 1931. After the death of his wife, Mr. Brand continued to farm until 1937, when he and the family moved into Wahpeton, where he lived until his death. During the past few summers Mr. Brand had visited at the various homes of his children, and at the time of his death was visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. G. Larson at Hammond.
Mr. Brand served his community as a school board member and town board member, while he lived in Mooreton township. Following his moving into Wahpeton he worked with the Soil Conservation Program and during the war, gave freely of his time and ability as a member of the local ration board.
Relatives who mourn his loss include his five children, his sister, Mrs. Alice Jost of Center township, Wahpeton, and his five grandchildren, John III, Judith and Eugene Herbert Larson of Hammond, Wis., Marilyn Brand of Wahpeton, and Linda Grass of Minneapolis.
Pallbearers will be Walter Meyer, M. E. Ward, Mr. Hollands, H. Spicer, Tony Bokinski, Bryon Woodbury. Honorary bearers will be Henry Osen, Walter Crawford, Ambrose Traeger, Julius Smith, Ben Bergman, Herman Stoltenow, Jake Meyer and Henry Sweep.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.