Chas. Mentzer (dod: 7 Nov 1908)

MENTZER

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 5/28/2023 at 20:01:47

CHAS. MENTZER DEAD
YOUNG CONTRACTOR SUCCUMBS TO HEART TROUBLE
HAD BEEN IN PERFECT HEALTH
Was First Taken Ill Thursday Night
When Downtown. Burial At
Hills Tomorrow

Chas. Mentzer is dead. Strong, robust and apparently in perfect health his friends were hardly able to believe the sad news when it was spread over the city Saturday evening. They had seen him about his usual work only a couple of days before and his death came as a terrible shock.

He had been in his usual health up to Thursday night, when he was seized with severe chilling, and later the development of a sore throat which scarcely confined him to his bed, when a physician was called on Friday. Contrary to the current rumor, the Bacteriological report showed it to not be a diphtheria, but a rather unusual form of septic infection known as “Vincent’s Angina.” During the course of this septicemia some twenty-four hours later, at four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, suddenly and without warning, a paralysis of the heart carried him off.

Mr. Mentzer was thirty-five years of age, born and reared in Liberty Township of this county, residing later in Hills where he carried on an active work in building. Wishing a deserving a larger field, he moved to Iowa City last winter, establishing his home at 445 S. Clark St. Since that time, he has entered largely into the active business life of this city, where his hustling ability and genial ways have won for him the esteem of all. He had just recently completed the new Unitarian Church, and on Thursday was overseeing the completion of Prof. Bolton’s home on the West Side.

He leaves his parents, brothers and sisters near Hills, and in the city his wife and two children, a son and a daughter, aged nine and eleven respectively. To this heartfelt sympathy is given in their sad and sudden bereavement.

He will be interred at the Mentzer Cemetery in Liberty Township on Tuesday forenoon, the funeral service to be held at the Hills Presbyterian Church at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Mentzer had recently, in connection with Connell & White, plumbers, begun the erection of a new shop and office building on Dubuque.
(Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, 9 Nov 1908, Mon, pg. 1)