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Unterseher, Joseph 1901-1956

ONCE HAZEN POLICE CHIEF DIES AT 54

HAZEN – The Rev. T. F. Doyen will officiate at funeral services at 2 p.m. Saturday in Peace Lutheran Church here for Joseph Unterseher, 54, former Hazen Chief of Police, who died unexpectedly Friday while at work at Bremerton, Wash. Mr. Unterseher had been suffering from a heart ailment for a year.

Family services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Pallbearers will be Roland, Reuben and Iver Unterseher, Elmer Krieger, Harold Miller and Dale Kruckenberg.

Mr. Unterseher, who served as Chief of Police for six years at Hazen, was born near Hazen on Aug. 14, 1901. A son of Jacob and Margareta Wellhoff Unterseher, he attended schools in Mercer County and was married to Minnie Grosz in 1924, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. He farmed north of Hazen until 1932, when he moved to town. He was residing at Bremerton at the time of his death.

Mr. Unterseher leaves one son, Erwin of Beulah; three daughters, Mrs. Robert (Una) Lohman, Auburn, Wash.,  Mrs. D. V. (Delma) Brown, Bremerton, Wash., and Donna Mae, at home in Bremerton; three brothers, David of Glendive, Mont., and Otto and Arthur of Hazen; and three sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Krieger, and Mrs. Emmanuel Richer of Hazen, and Mrs. George Lee of Bismarck.

In addition to a son, Erhardt, who died on March 1, as the result of an auto accident, one sister, five brothers and one other son preceded him in death.

The Aarthun Funeral Home at Hazen is in charge of funeral arrangements.

~Source: The Bismarck Tribune, April 19, 1956