Transcript of Obituary of Henry Otto Lamp

  Henry Otto Lamp was born Janu-
ary  3, 1862 in Holstein, Probstei
Schonberg, Germany, and died Feb.
7, 1936 at the St. Anthony's hospital 
in Carroll. He had arrived at the 
age of 74 years, 1 month and 4 days.
  Mr. Lamp came to America when
young man of eighteen years, in the
year 1880. He first came to Clinton 
Iowa and found employment the same
day on a farm for Frank Naev[?][1880 
census says name was Frank Baere]
where he worked for more than two years.
  On December 10, 1883 he was mar-
ried to Cathrina Jones. They
then came west and located on a farm
near Aspinwall where they lived until
1884 when they moved to a farm
miles south of Westside which be-
came the homestead. They resided
there for forty six years and then re-
tired and moved to the town of West-
side in 1918.
   Mr. Lamp was baptized in the Luth-
eran faith in his native country and
received his education in Germany.
   Mrs. Lamp preceded her husband in
death in March 1929.
  He leaves to mourn his passing
seven children, twenty grandchildren
and one great grandchild. His chil-
dren are Lena (Mrs. Detlef Passick of
Polk City); Emma (Mrs. George 
Fonken of Springfield, Minn.) Miss
Alvena at home; Ann, (Mrs. John 
Mohr), Herman, and Mabel, (Mrs. Earl
Brown) all of Westside; LeNora, (Mrs. 
George Keat of Carroll.)  One brother
Hans Lamp of Mankato, Minnesota
also survives him.
  Mr. Lamp had been an agent for
the Home Mutual Insurance Company
for forty years and he was a member
of the Hayes Township Schuetzer
Verein.
  Mr. Lamp was a man with a cheer-
ful and amiable disposition; one who
was ever ready to help a friend or
neighbor in time of need or distress.
He had been actively identified
with the affairs of his community for
a half century and many are the per-
sons who will remember him for his
kind deeds and his optimistic outlook
on life.
  The sympathy of the community is
extended members of his fa-
ily who are left to mourn the loss of
their father.