Frank W. Sommerfeld
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1` - March 12, 1943
FRANK W . SOMMERFELD
The community was given quite a shock Monday on learning of the death of Frank Sommerfeld of Gypsum valley . That Mr . Sommereld was not in the best of health was known to close friends , but very few knew of his real condition , so that the death of a man in apparent robust health came as a surprise . Frank W . Sommerfeld was born at Scherbern , Minn ., Feb . 15 , 1884 , and died at his ranch home in Gypsum valley Mar . 8 , 1943 , being a few days past 59 years of age . He came to Colorado about 30 years ago , and soon thereafter came
to Eagle county : He was a barber by trade , and worked for a time in a shop 4 n Glenwood Springs , and was employed for a time by Jack Bindley in Eagle- He had a shop in Gypsum for a short while , and here he met Tommy Thomas , and there grew up between these two men a friendship which only death ended . Together they embarked in ranching and stockraising on Cottonwood creek . They prospered modestly in their endeavors , and a few years ago sold their holdings on Cottonwood and bought the ranch in Gypsum valley where they were living when death severed the partnership last Mondav morning .
Mr . Sommerfeld liked to travel , and see what the rest of the United States loked like . Of recent years he and Mr . Thomas had traveled extensively over the western part of the United States and Mexico , during the winter months , returning to the ranch for the summer . But the past year his health had been such that he was forced to remain at home . He was known as a good neighbor and a good citizen , and his absence will be felt by a host of friends . He had no close relatives living , so far as known , and little was known here of his family . A large concourse of friends ahd neighbors attended the funeral services held at the Lutheran church in Gypsum at 3 oclock Tuesday afternoon , Dr . O . F . Archer of the local Methodist church delivering the discourse . Funeral arrangements and burial rites were attended to by the Andre Funeral Home , and the body was laid to rest in Cedar Hill cemetery at Gypsum .
