Gustav Adolph Hubner

Gustav Adolph Hubner of Germanville died Saturday, June 29th, 1929, aged 49 years, 5 months and 4 days.
The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday, July 2nd, at 1:45 o'clock P.M. and from the Lutheran Church in Roberts at 2:30 P.M. Rev. Henry Foelsch, the pastor officiating. Interment was in Lyman Cemetery.
The following obituary was read at the funeral.
Our esteemed brother and friend, Gustav Adolf Hubner, who so suddenly past out of our midst, was born on the 25th day of January in the year of our Lord 1880. His place of birth was beyond the sea in Kollmar, Province of Posen, Germany. There he was also baptized in the name of the triune God and received his first instructions in religion; these were imparted to him in part by his Christian parents, in part at the public school which he attended for a little more than three years in the old country. In 1889, when about nine years of age, his parents Gottlieb Hubner and Mrs. Ottilie Hubner, nee Fuerstenau, determined to establish a new home for themselves and their family in that land to which so many of their countrymen had gone before them and place themselves on a permanent footing. Thus in the life of this boy of nine a complete change occurs, a new world opens up which most likely filled his mind with wonderment.
After safely completing their voyage across the Atlantic they at once journeyed westward and came to this state and town. It is here where he spent forty years of his life and it is here where he finished his school work. It is here also where he received special religious instruction and after having been duly examined was confirmed on Palm Sunday, the 18th of March 1894, in St. Peter's Church at Melvin, by his Pastor Reverend J. Allgaier. From his early youth he loved the farm and learned to adapt himself to the cultivating of the soil with all that this implies.
On the 12th of January 1904 our departed friend was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Ida Kietzman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Kietzman, of Melvin. This union was blessed with seven children, the first child preceded his father into eternity whilst the others all are here present deeply mourning the departure from this life of their beloved father. Our deceased brother was strong and always in good health until the last three years of his life, and apparently had a goodly number of years still before him, but this was not to be. Indigestion set in a few years ago, this condition gradually grew worse, and at times he was much in pain. As a last resort an operation was decided upon which took place on Saturday morning. He lived only a few hours after the same, peacefully passing from this life at a quarter of eleven at night. May he rest in peace!
His allotted time by the grace of God was 49 years, 5 months and 4 days.
He leaves to mourn his sorrowing widow, Mrs. Ida Hubner; his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Hubner of Roberts; and his sons and daughters; Gustav, Rudolph, Edgar, Hilda, Charles, and William; also his brother, Paul Hubner, and his sister, Mrs. L. C. Kietzman, of Roberts.
May our God, who is the God of unbounded love and compassion, richly comfort those, our sorrowing friends, with the consolation of his holy Word.

--Roberts Herald.  3 July 1929.