Obit: Opelt, Carl Sr. (1842 - 1917)

 

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Surnames: Opelt, Thelig, Beeckler, Holmes

 

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 01/12/1917, photo provided by Don Schutte

 

Opelt, Carl Sr. (21 APR 1842 - 8 JAN 1917)

 

Carl Opelt Sr. died Monday afternoon, Jan. 8th, 1917 as the result of heart trouble or apoplexy.  He has made his home with his son Max and family since the death of his wife 12 years ago, and only lately moved from Lynn to the new home in Levis.  Apparently in his usual health and devoted to his grandchildren and his little great-grandson, Arthur’s boy.  The last duty performed was rocking this baby to sleep at three o’clock Monday afternoon.  Then going to his room he evidently answered the final summons with little or no warning.  He was found apparently asleep two hours later, though then, cold in death.

 

Mr. Opelt and his daughter Martha, who only Saturday came up from Sheridan and hadn’t seen grandpa since, driving home from the Lucas Hale home, Martha ran on into the house while her papa stopped to put up the team, and going directly to her grandpa’s room, and getting no response to her calls, she attempted to awaken him, when her little brother came in and discovered that he was beyond the hearing of earthly calls.

 

Carl Opelt Sr. was born in Rouneburg, Germany, April 21, 1842 and came to St. Louis, Mo., in 1880.  Thence to Lynn, Clark County, Wis. in 1881, which until this fall has been his home since.  Deceased led a quiet peaceful uneventful life devoid of big displays and was a man of deeds rather than of words.  He was a man of well-known honesty and sterling integrity, always thoughtful of the feelings of others.  To him the whole human race was one great family joined in the ties of common brotherhood.  In the family circle he was a loving, kind indulgent husband and father and the most adorable and doting grandfather.

 

He is survived by 3 sons, max of the town of Levis, with whom he lived, William of Stevens Point and Carl who whereabouts are unknown.  Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Annie Thelig of Holyoke, Mass., one sister in Germany and two nieces, Mrs. E.A. Beeckler and Mrs. H.B. Holmes of Granton.

 

The funeral was held from the Lynn Town Hall Thursday afternoon, Jan. 11th, 1917, Rev. Wilson Mallory of the Church of Christ officiating.  Interment was made in the Lynn Cemetery beside the body of his late wife who died 12 years ago.

 

 

  

 

 


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