Person:Ernest Klaus (2)

From the November 12, 1958, edition of the Waterloo (IA) Daily Courier

Ernest R. Klaus

Funeral services for Ernest R. Klaus, 65, of 722 Riehl St., will be at 2 pm Friday at the First Lutheran Church.

The Rev. Bruno Schlachtenhaufen, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Garden of Memories cemetery.

Mr. Klaus died at 1:30 pm Tuesday at Veterans Hospital in Iowa City, where he had been a patient for nine weeks. Death was due to a cardiac ailment.

Born in Waterloo June 6, 1893, Mr. Klaus was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Klaus. He married Louise Baltz on Oct. 16, 1923, in Castalia, Ia.

In 1916 he served in the National Guard on the Mexican border and during World War I served in the Navy. He was a member of the First Lutheran Church, Martin Lodge No. 624, AF & AM and Becker Chapman Post of the American Legion. He was employed for 21 years as a sheet metal worker with Trainor & Brown Furnace & Sheet Metal company.

Mr. Klaus is survived by his wife; a son, Robert, 245 Marie St., Elk Run Heights; a brother, A.F. Klaus, 2746 E. 4th St.; and four sisters, Mrs. Leonard Priebe, 137 Quincy St., Mrs. Mame Boehnke, 139 Quincy, Mrs. Frieda Heaberlin, Beloit, Wis., and Mrs. Alice Eley, Cherokee, Ia.

Three grandchildren also survive. Mr. Klaus was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters.

Friends may call at the Chapel of Memories Funeral Home.