Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-31
Prominent Askov
Resident Victim
OF Heart Attack
Fritz Holm Will be Laid to
Rest i'm the Local Gene
terry Today.

IlS f1ShON SSiiSAo
was shocked beyond words early
Monday morning when it became
known that Fritz Holm had been
stricken suddenly with fatal heart
attack between the hours of $50. and
11:3O p. m. the evening before. Mr..
Holm, bachelor, who boarded and
roomed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bertel Fisher in the village, was
found dead in the home when the
Fishers returned from a choral con-
cert. Apparently death came in
simultaneously.
Fritz, as he was known by all in
the Askov community, had not been
entirely we'll since his operation a
few years ago, but being of strong
body and will he carried on in his
work about the community in his
capacity of carrying the mail to and
from the depot and taking care of the
Great Northern freight and express,
together with odd jobs of light truck
ing about the community.
A Familiar Figure.
Fritz and his little red truck was a
familiar figure about town, for all day
long he could be seen near at hand
for any and all jobs or favors people
might want. He was lover of horses
and animals of all kinds, having but
recently relinquished the last of his
horses which he owned while con-
Quoting the Askov Dray Line.
He was a true conservationist and
a man of the outdoors, always taking
part in the hunting seasons. Only
a few weeks ago he came into the
office of the writer with a broad
smile and remarked that he had been
out with the game warden to release
some Chukar cartridges at the nurs-
cry.
During the deep snow period of
last winter, his heart was cut to the
quick to see some pheaSants who
always came to his barns in the viii
lage for feed, in distress. He carried
a pheasant rooster that had become
begged down in the deep snow, to
a warm shelter in his barn and fed
him until the bird was able to again
forage for himself.
Just such as these few things spoke
well for the soul of the man whom
all knew and now mourn the passing
of. He was always conscientious in
his work and his wide smile was
never very far from his countenance.
D-.~. -.
Fritz Holm was born at Jordlose,
Denmark, Feb. 10, 1888. For time
after coming to the United States
he worked for railroad company
in Colorado and in 1914 he came to
Askov. He conducted dray line
here for many years, but about three
years ago relinquished some of that
business and conducted what has
been known as the Askov Express
He is survived by brother, Rob-
ert Nielsen, at Custer, Mich; niece,
Mrs. H. c.. Englebrecht of Scottville,
Mich, and a sister and brother in
Denmark. Another brother in this
country died few years ago. Mr.
Holm was formerly a member of the
D. B. S. lodge and at one time a
member of the village council.
The funeral will be held from the
Bertel Fisher home at l o'clock and
from the Danish Lutheran church in
the village at lis o'clock this after
noon with the sermon being preached
by Rev. j. P. Andersen of West Den
mark. The niece and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. H. G.. Englebrecht, and the
brothers wife, Mrs. Robert Nielsen
are here to attend the funeral.
Pallbearers who carried the body
to its last resting place in the local
cemetery were Louis Olsen, T. N
Thomson, Carl Miller, A. G. Daniel
son, Peter Bovberg and Jacob Hansen