The Wausa Gazette
Thursday March 23, 1922
Carl Alfred Bernard Lindblad
For the second time within the week the angel of death visited the Wausa community last Thursday night, March 15, when he stepped across the threshold of the S. J. Lindblad home in the north part of town to summon the son, Carl Alfred Bernard, a young man but a little over twenty-five years of age.
The deceased was born at LaPorte, Indiana, January 16, 1897 and came with his parents to Nebraska but three years later. He grew into manhood in the Wausa community and had a host of friends among the young people of the community. Some three years ago he began to fail in health, his affliction being diagnosed as diabetes. All that tender care and medical science could do was done to combat the disease which in spite thereof made slow but steady progress. Some three or four weeks ago came the final collapse and from that time on it was apparent the the end could be a matter of days at the most. He however lingered on until Thursday night last week when he quietly passed away. He was a kind and affectionate son and in all respects a model young man, a little quiet and reserved by nature, but honest, square and upright, loved and esteemed by all who made his acquaintance. His seemingly untimely death is mourned by a heartbroken father and mother: four brothers, Bert, John, Seth nd Earl: four sisters, Mrs. Edwin Johnson of Lyons, Nebraska, Mrs. David Mord, of Wausa, Gailen and Leona, who are at home with the parents.
Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, at 2:00 from the Lutheran church. There was a profusion of floral tributes bearing silent testimony of the esteem in which the departed was held by relatives and friends. Appropriate selections were rendered by a mixed quartette, and funeral sermons were preached by L. J. Finn in the Swedish and by F. A. Gustafson in the English. The remains were laid to rest in the Woodlawn cemetery. The entire community united in extending sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family.
