Jacob Schlichenmayer --  1937

        An old pioneer north of Bethune, since 1889, Jacob Schlichenmayer departed this life at the age of 63 years, 10 months and 16 days, on Sept. 14, 1937.  Peaceful in the faith of his savior Jesus Christ, thus a three-year illness came to its end after having an operation for prostate gland trouble in Denver in 1934, and after being in the Burlington hospital since the beginning of August.  Gallstones and cancer of the liver broke down his once rugged life after his wife had gone before him, Aug. 31, 1934, and his oldest daughter Emma Anderson, June 10, 1920.
       The deceased was the son of Jacob and Margaretha Schlichenmayer, born Nov. 28, 1873, in Birsula, S. Russia, confirmed in the Lutheran church April 17, 14 years later, married Christina Breitling at Bethune, Dec. 30, 1897, with 12 children to this union, namely; Jacob at Kanorado, Kans., Wilhelm at Burlington; Alvina Stutz at Denver, and Reinhard, John, Gerhard, Tedfield, Garfield, Harold, Leona, Bertha Crites, all of Bethune; and 16 grandchildren.  Besides his children and grandchildren he leaves to mourn  his brothers, Gottlieb, John, David, and Fred and his sisters, Margaretha, Christina, Elizabeth and Caroline, and many friends.
       During the last weeks of his sickness, when recovery wained, he was a patient sufferer trusting in the redeeming blood of his Savior and in that trust he closed his life for a better world and the great day of resurrection to come.  He was buried from the Lutheran Immanuel's church in the cemetery of that church his pastor, H.L. Woelber conducting the funeral service, on Sept. 17 at 2 pm.  To the faithful in Church this promise goes out:  "Tho ye die, yet ye shall live; I am the resurrection and the life; he who believeth in me shall never die."