G

BENJAMIN GUTKNECHT, 61,
DIES AT HOME   

Benjamin Gutknecht, 61, dropped dead on the lawn at his home, 411 Sixteenth St., when he suffered a heart attack at 8:37 p.m. Thursday.  He had been troubled with a heart ailment for the past four years.

The body is at the Boelter Funeral Home.

Mr. Gutknecht was born in Laiqui, Parle county, Minn., April 29, 1889. He was the son of Otto and Emilie Gutknecht. After receiving his education in schools there, he moved to Underwood in 1916, his home for 10 years before coming to Bismarck in 1926.

In 1942, he married Emma Ziemann in Mandan. A member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, he has been a painter for the Bismarck hospital for the past seven years.

He leaves three brothers, Otto Gutknecht, Correl, Minn.; August, Underwood; Herman, Fargo; and a sister, Mrs. Martha Pusch, Odessa, Minn.  He also leaves six half brothers and sisters. They are Guste, Wilke, Emil, William and Paul, Underwood; Mrs. Emil Bratz, Colo Harbor and Mrs. Herman Peterson, Glenwood.

One son, one brother, his parents and a sister preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be held in Trinity Lutheran Church here Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Opie S. Rindahl officiating. Burial will be made in Fairview Cemetery.

~Source: Bismarck Tribune, July 7, 1950
~Note: His wife, Emma Ziemann, was the daughter of Emanuel Ziemann Sr. & wife, Martha Rahn Ziemann of Mercer County, ND.