Barz, Fred C. 1883-1906

BARZ

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 9/9/2024 at 15:36:58

Fred C. Barz, brother of Rev. F. Otto Barz, died at Giard, Iowa, Friday morning, May 18th, 1906. Deceased was born near Clifton, Spink County, S. Dakota, Jan. 28, 1883; bereft of his father and two brothers as a result of an accident on May 10th, 1807 [sic] and left an orphan through the death of his mother on June 13th, 1900.

For two years he was a student in the high school of Lancaster, Wis.; to which he had access through the wise care of his brother Otto; graduated from the high school of Freeport Ill., in the class of 1902; student of Charles City College from Sept. 1902 to May 5th, 1905, when his impaired condition obliged him to lay down his word, a year and three days more of gradual decline and intense suffering - such is the outline of a career into which was crowded more than the average of sad experience and glorious achievement.

Fred Barz was a young man of brilliant talent and great promise. He he lived he would have completed his college course at Charles City with the class of 1906, and those who knew him as a student believe that he would have ranked second to none. He was a young man of boundless energy, high ideals and unbending will. But the most, gratifying fact of all was, that it was his unswerving purpose to put himself, with all his powers under the control and guidance of Christ through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

His religion was not of the emotional and demonstrative, but rather of the intellectual type. He may not have been capable of penetrating directly to the heart of God with the intuition of the disciple whom Jesus drew to his bosom; but he did know that the logical attitude for us to assume toward the God of our salvation is that we yield to him our bodies as a living sacrifice.

The last six months he made his home with his brother at Giard, Iowa, where he received the tenderest care possible from his sister Carrie, a trained nurse of Cincinnati, Ohio, and his brother Rev. F.O. Barz and family.

The funeral services were held at the Giard church Sunday morning at the hour of regular worship, Dr. F.E. Hirsc, President of Charles City college officiating. Interment took place Tuesday in Clifton S. Dakota.

~McGregor News, Wednesday, May 23, 1906; pg 4 (Giard column)