The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-25
FUNERAL LPLANSF
ROBERT BODENSTAB
REMAIN INDEFINITE
Last Rites Probably Will Be
Held Friday; Interment Is
Planned Here
DEATH WAS INSTANTANEOUS
Bismarck Youth Killed Monday
Evening When Truck He
Drove Overturned

Funeral arrangements for Robert
w. Bodenstab, 23-year -old Bismarck
youth who was instantly killed when
the truck he was driving overturned
north OF Sentinel Butte early Monday
evening, remained indefinite Wednes-
day afternoon.
He was the only son of DR.. and
Mrs. w. H. Bodenstab, $40 Mandan
avenue, residents of Bismarck for
many years.
Rites probably will be held Friday
Mrs. Bodenstab said, with Rev. D.
Pierce Jones, rector of st. Georges
, Episcopal church, in charge.
Definite arrangements will not be
made until DR.. Bodenstab returns to
Bismarck this evening from Beach
with the body. DR.. Bodenstab left
with DR.. v. j. LaRose for Beach
Tuesday evening.
Burial at st. Mary's
Where the last rites will be con-
Quoted has not been decided. The
services probably will be held from
Webbs Funeral Parlors or one of the
churches N the city. Burial probably
will be made in st. Mary's cemetery
here.
An uncle of the youth, H. H. Bod
enstab, is expected to arrive In Bis
marck Thursday from Milwaukee
Wis, to attend the rites.
Bodenstab apparently was killed
! about o'clock Monday evening. He
had driven to Sentinel Butte that af-
ternoon TO get a load Of lumber
which he was to take to his fathers
sheep ranch, north of Sentinel Butte
and Medora.
Leaving Sentinel Butte about $3.50
p. m. with the load of lumber, he had
gone only eight miles when the acci-
dent occurred.
Officials Inform Family
H. L. Rice and w. r. Schell, Colder
Valley county coroner and states at
torney, respectively, were called tt
the accident scene as soon as the
wreck was discovered. They gave ne
apparent cause of the accident in 9
telegram to the family.
Rice said an injury to the cheSt
probably caused death instantly
When found, one Of Bodenstab's legs
was pinned under the machine.
The wreck was discovered Tuesday
forenoon by rural mail carrier anc
officials were notified. The Boden'
stab family here was informed Of tht
tragedy shortly after 2 o'clock Tues.
day afternoon.
Bodenstab had been working on hi!
fathers sheep ranch for severa
weeks. He made occasional trips *
Bismarck on ek-ends, and only
short time ago had accompanied hi
father on a prairie chicken hunting
trip.
| Was Born In Bismarck
Robert w. BodenStab was born II
Bismarck May "a, 1908. He was edu'
Gated in Bismarck's public schools
and later attended the University O
North Dakota, the North Dakot&
Agricultural college, and the Univer'
sity of Michigan.
For several months following hi
return from school, he was employed
at Great Falls, Mont, where he wa
ill for some time with pneumonia.
Several months ago he returned t.
Bismarck from Winnipeg, Man., Can
ada, where he had completed an avi
alton course. He was an airplan'
pilot with several hours of solo fly
ing experience and last Christina
piloted a plane from Winnipeg to Bis
marck and back.
Scores of friends of the young maj
called at the Bodenstab home Tues
day afternoon and evening to visi
members of the bereaved family.
Bodenstab had a wide circle O
friends.
He leaves his parents and a sister
Kathryn A. Bodenstab, living in Bis
marck.