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C. ZELLER, 67, DIES;
RITES HELD IN HAZEN

Christian Zeller, Jr., 67, Hazen, died at his home at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 20. He had been in ill health for the past 10 years.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Peace Lutheran Church at Hazen with the Rev. T.F. Doyen officiating. Burial was made in the church cemetery. A family service was held at 1:30 p.m. Pallbearers were Emanuel Ziemann, Jr., Julius Heine, Gottfried Raszler, Fred Koehler, John Wiedrich and Philip Hornbacher. Honorary pallbearers were Paul Goetz, Mike Pfenning, and Otto Mettler. The Aarthun-Singer Funeral Home at Hazen was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Zeller was born Oct. 24, 1885, in South Russia, the son of Katherine Heine and Christian Zeller. He came to the United States in 1888, settling at Eureka, S.D. In 1904, he homesteaded 16 miles north of Hazen, near Mannhaven, where he resided until retiring and move to Hazen in 1943. Mr. Zeller married Magdalena Mehlhoff Jan. 27, 1910, in the Immanuel Lutheran Church north of Hazen. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Besides his widow, he leaves two sons, Gottlieb and Albert, both of Beulah; six daughters, Mrs. Fred Hildebrand, Beulah; Mrs. Leslie Gedrose, Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. Wallace Pankeiwiez, Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. August Klundt, Dunn Center; and Mrs. Paul Guenthner, Hazen; one brother, Fred Zeller, Beulah; one sister, Mrs. Philip Oster, Eureka, S.D.; and 14 grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.

~Source: The Bismarck Tribune, February 28, 1953