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John Frederick Oberkotter

5 Dec 1866 – 20 Apr 1923

Birth	5 Dec 1866
Death	20 Apr 1923
Cemetery	Geneva Cemetery Geneva , Fillmore County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	M. Jensen Seggerman on 28 Nov 2012
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94083441

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THE LATE JOHN OBERKOTTER John Frederick Oberkotter was born December 5, 1866, in Meredosia, Ill., and died April 20, 1923, at the family home on the farm in Geneva Township, aged 56 years, 4 months, and 15 days. On April 14 and again on April 15, John had attacks of neuralgia of the heart. These attack were severely painful but short lived, and John not having fully recovered from a siege of grip, they proved too much for his weakened condition. Friday night, April 20, about 8 o'clock he quietly as if sleeping, passed into the great beyond. John's boyhood was spent in Illinois and Missouri. He came to Nebraska thirty-eight years ago with his parents. For thirty-seven years, except for an interval of two years when he served in the Spanish-American war, John has resided on the home place. Twenty-two years ago at the time that his father was disabled, he assumed the management of the family affairs, and none could have done it better. John is survived by his aged mother, three brothers and seven sisters. His brother, Martin of San Diego, Cal., and his sister Anna of Lark, N.D. were not able to be present at the funeral. John was never married, but he was the oldest of a large family of children, and many years ago he quietly assumed a greater responsibility than falls to most men of his kind. His unusual, unbounded interest in the welfare, not only of his parents and younger brothers and sisters, but also in several nieces and nephews will make his name and memory stand out among his own as a guiding, leading spirit. The funeral was conducted by Rev. William Wiezke of St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Grafton, Neb. Interment was in the family lot in the Geneva cemetery. It is just a little unusual that now side by side rest three soldiers each a representative of a different war. Henry Oberkotter, the father, a veteran of the Civil war; John Oberkotter, his son, a veteran of the Spanish War, and Jack Kleinleln, a grandson, a soldier of the World War. Eight members of Company G acted as pall bearers. John was a member of Company G during the Spanish-American war. Several relatives from afar were present at the funeral: Henry Oberkotter, a brother from Burwell, Neb.; Mrs. C. R. Curtiss, a sister, from Hoqulam, Wash.; Martha, Lena and Louise Oberkotter, sisters, from Seattle, Wash; Martin Wohlers, an uncle, and his son Arthur from Meredosia, Ill., Mrs. Margaret Werries, an aunt, and her daughter Caroline from Tescott, Kas., and C. J. Kleinlein of Strawberry Point, Ia. Nebraska Signal 3 May 1923.

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