John Baltzer -- 1987

Wishek, North Dakota  29 July 1987
-- from the obituary file at ASGHR

       John B. Baltzer, 95, former Napoleon area resident, died Friday, July 17, 1987 at Mercy Folsom Hospital in Folsom, CA.  Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 22, 2:00 p.m. in Trinity Lutheran church, Napoleon, with Pastor Mike Elias officiating.  Burial was in the Napoleon city Cemetery with Nickisch Funeral Home, Napoleon, in charge.
         Mr. Baltzer was born March 20, 1892 in Burlington, CO, the son of Andreas and Carolina (Strobel) Baltzer.  In 1910, at the age of 18, he came with his parents to Glendale Township where they homesteaded five miles north of Napoleon.  He married Emma Weber in April, 1919, in a triple ceremony at Wishek.  The couple farmed until 1969 when they moved into Napoleon.  John also worked as a county road grader during the depression years and worked with the Soil Conservation planting trees.
        His wife died September 3, 1977. In 1980, he moved to Folsom, CA to lie with his daughter Ruth.
        John was a charter member of the Logan County Soil Conservation District, and had served on the Glendale Township school board.
        Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Dick (Ruth) Reynolds, Folsom, CA and Mrs. Robert (Linda) Mitzel, Hampton, VA; one son, Robert Baltzer, Garden Grove, CA; 14 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; two sisters, Emma Weber, Woodburn, OR and Martha Kane, Hamilton, MT; two brothers Arthur, Lyons, OR and Jake, Napoleon.
        He was preceded in death by two sons, one brother, one sister, one grandchild, and his wife, Emma.
        Pallbearers were Dick Reynolds, Michael Baltzer, Tim Baltzer, Terry Baltzer, Bruce Baltzer and Glen Newman.
       Honorary pallbearers were John M. Wolf, Andrew D. Bauer, John Fettig, Hap Regner and Herman Eichele.