Atkinson Graphic, Oct 29, 1909
IN MEMORIAM
Donatus Seger was born in Friesenheim, Baden, Germany Sept 26,1828, died at his home near Atkinson, Nebr Oct 1909, aged 81 years 1 month and 2 days.
Mr Seger came to America in 1851 settling in Chicago, Ill, where he remained for a period of 28 years, going from there to Omaha, Nebr, where he resided nearly two years, coming to Holt County in 1880 and abided here until the time of his death.
He leaves five sons, Leopold, Donat, Paul, John, and Max and one dau, Jennie, now Mrs John Baumann, his partner in life having preceded him to the permanent home in 1894.
All the care and love that skilled physicians and an anxious household could devise and apply for his comfort and assistance were brought into play, but the fiat of Him who rules our incomings and outgoings had been issued and at the early morning hours the sufferer’s spirit took its flight to that home the Christian believes is the fulfillment of the life everlasting.
He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and a candid, outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mould the rude elements of pioneer society into form and consistency, and aid in raising a high standard of citizenship in our young and growing state. How much this community owes him and such as he, it is impossible to estimate, though it would be a grateful task to trace his influence through some of the more direct channels, to hold him up in these degenerate days in his various characters of husband and father, of neighbor and friend, to speak of the sons and dau he has reared to perpetuate his name and emulate his virtues. But it comes not within the scope of this brief article to do so suffice it to say, he lived nobly and died peacefully at the advanced age of 81 years. The stern Reaper found him, as a shock of corn, fully ripe for the harvest.
Not for him be our tears! Rather let us crown his grave with garlands; few of us will live as long or as well, and fewer yet will the Angel of Death greet with such a loving touch.
Funeral services will be held this (Friday) morning at 10 o’clock at St Joseph’s Catholic Church and interment at their cemetery west of town.
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