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RAHN RITE SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY AT HAZEN

Funeral services for Ferdinand Rahn, 75, Hazen, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Peace Lutheran Church at Hazen with the Rev. T.F. Doyen officiating.

Interment will be made in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be John Netzer, Louis Gutknecht, Adam Zeiszler, Henry Weist, William Rasch and Peter Weidrich. Honorary pallbearers will include John Ellwein, John Maas, Fred Adolf, Christ Zeller, August Lauf and Gotthilf Grosz.

Mr. Rahn died in a Bismarck hospital at 5 p.m. Friday. He had been ill and hospitalized for one week.

Born Feb. 25, 1877, in South Russia, Mr. Rahn was the son of Johan and Karolina Lehman Rahn. He came to the United States on March 7, 1894, homesteading eight miles south of Hazen in Oliver County. In 1907, he moved to a farm 10 miles north of Hazen and in 1944, he retired and began residing in Hazen.

He was married to Madalena Zieman on Nov. 27, 1902, in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Krem. She died on March 29, 1951.

Mr. Rahn leaves three sons, Herman, Albert and Emil, all of Hazen; six daughters, Amanda of Sacramento, Calif., Anna, Hazen, Mrs. Lester Hainings, Audubon, N.J., Mrs. Gerald Johnson, Stockton, Calif., Mrs. Fred Harbeck, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Edward Shiney, Kansas City, Mo.; one foster son, Gottlieb Gensburg, Halliday; two brothers, John, of Hazen and Ernest of Beulah; and 11 grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.

A family service will be held at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. The body is at the Aarthun-Singer Funeral Home at Hazen.

~Source: The Bismarck Tribune, August 19, 1952