New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-15
END OF LIFE FOR YOUNG MAN
Alex. F. Ottomeyer Passes Away
Saturday Morning.
Funeral Services Held at COngre'
gational Church.
Large COncourse of People Pay
Tribute to His Memory.

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Congregational church Monday after
noon for the late Alexander F. Otto
meyer and the church was crowded with
the friends of the deceased, and it
seems that almost if not quite all of the
people of the city we're his friends.
The coffin was borne into the church
by six members of the faith to which
he had subscribed and which he lived
to the time of his death, Messrs.
Beecher, Geo. Schmidt, Lienhard,
Mihleis. F. b. Krook and Held, while
a slow march was played by Mrs.
Lienhard. The choir sang "Come I'm
to Me-" and Rev. G. H. Sauter offered
prayer in the German tongue and the
choir sang at the conclusion, 'Asleep
in jesus
Rev. E. F. Wheeler, pastor of the
church spoke for few minutes of the
life and character of the deceased as
he had known him since he had been
pastor of the church. He said that he
believed him to be the sincerest, gen
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christian man he had ever met.
For seventeen years and over he had
been treasurer of the church and dur
ing all that time there was never a
deficit when his annual report was
made at the end of each year, and he
had been told that frequently it was
necessary to advance the money out
of his own pocket to do this. Mr..
Wheeler recounted many instances OF
the gentle charity that marked the &C
tions of the young man and said that
only few days before he left to make
his home with his sister for the short
time he believed he would have to live,
he came to the parsonage and in the
course of the conversation said that
he was sure he would never get well
- aad that it was but short time until
he would be called away, but that he
was ready and willing to go, seven
though the number of his years was
not that which usually limits the boun.
diaries of life.
Wheeler and said that it had been his
privilege to know the deceased fol
seventeen years and in that time he hat
become personally acquainted with hin
and had learned to love him. To
gether they had made tour of Europ,
and were anticipating a return to tina
country this year but now it cOult
never be- After an Introduction il
English Mr.. Metzke spoke in German
having been requested to use thi
speech by the brother of the deceased
Concluding his address the benedic
ton followed and the large concours
passed out and the body was borne tt
the grave in the City cemetery wher
it now rests beside the remains of hi
mother.
Here in this life the people of thi
city knew Alex Ottomeyer for VIVA
he was, a patient, conscientious, hope
full, ambitious young man. devoted tt
his business andto his mother to whom
he appeared to be bound by more thar
ordinary flial ties, soon after he
death he seems to have lost hope an,
a gradual decline set in that resisted
the care of physicians and his will t,
overcome and resulted in his death.
His life and his death teach tina
here in this world where life and dealt
have equal sway, all should be brav
enough to meet what all the dead hav
met, for the great and ever bloomin
tree of life shakes from it's branches q