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Gustauv Mohs

Date of Interment or Death 01/22/1951
Location Old Fairview
Section D
Block-Lot-Grave 19-4-1s

Obituary

Gustaf R. Mohs, 57, Dies Suddenly Thursday at Home

Rites Conducted Monday for Lifelong Richland Resident

Funeral services were conducted this Monday afternoon at 1:30 from the Schmitt and Olson chapel, and at 2 p.m. from the Immanuel Lutheran church for Gustaf Robert Mohs, lifetime resident of Richland county, who died suddenly Thursday at his home at 522 – 3rd street South in Wahpeton.

Rev. Henry Fry officiated at the military funeral. Burial was made in the family lot in Fairview cemetery. Schmitt & Olson funeral home were in charge of the arrangements.

Pallbearers were six nephews. They are Lloyd and Ed Hingst, Ted and Harold Gast, James Mohs and Ray Baier.

Gustaf Mohs was born January 1, 1894, at Fairmount, where he grew up on a farm in DeVille township. He married Emma Trezoik at Wahpeton December 18, 1919. They lived on the farm until six years ago when they moved to Wahpeton.

He is a veteran of the first World War and was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Lyle Glessing of Fargo, and Delilah and Donna at home; three sons, Clifford and Warren at Wahpeton, and Cpl. Alvin Mohs who is in the army stationed in Berlin.

He also leaves five sisters, Mrs. Al Turner of Minneapolis, Mrs. Amanda Hingst and Mrs. Arthur Rising of Breckenridge, Mrs. Wm. Gast of Wahpeton, and Mrs. Alma Dupree of Tintah, Minn., one brother, John of St. Paul, and five grandchildren

Two sisters and a brother preceded him in death.

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Location

Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.