Jacob G. Fuhrer

HERREID, S.D. -- Jacob G. Fuhrer, 88, Herreid, died May 24, 2000, in the Linton hospital. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hope Reformed Church, Westfield, N.D., with the Rev. Floyd Haan officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Herreid.

Carol IntVeldt will serve as organist, and Willis Vander Wal and Jerome Pool will sing a duet.

Casketbearers will be Rod Fuhrer, LeRoy Sattler, Leo Ackerman, Mike HOffman, Ken Vander Vorst and Wayne Vander Vorst.

Honorary casketbearers are his grandchildren, Chad Kruger, Melissa Nelson, Stacey Kruger, Sheri Emigh, Laura Johnson, Tara Fuhrer, Loren Fuhrer, Bryan Johnson and Emily Fuhrer.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. today and 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Myers Funeral Home, Linton, and will continue after noon at the church. A prayer service will begin at 8 tonight at the funeral home.

Jacob was born Aug. 2, 1911, on a farm 8 miles north of Herreid, the son of Jacob and Katherina (Heintz) Fuhrer. He attended a rural school. Jacob worked in Minnesota prior to his marriage. On Jan. 7, 1943, he married Bessie Vander Vorst at Eureka and they made their home on his family farm until October 1976 when they moved into Herreid.

Jacob was a member of the Hope Reformed Church at Westfield. He served on the board of the Herreid Good Samaritan Center in Herreid for several years and also served on the Emmons County Farm Home Administration Board. He enjoyed spending time with his family and farming.

Grateful to have shared his life are his wife, Bessie; one son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Kathy, Bismarck; three daughters and sons-in-law, Theresa and Gary Emigh, Sioux Falls, Vivian and Larry Kruger, and Cheryl and David Johnson, all of Aberdeen; nine grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Edward and Gloria, Herreid, and Rueben and Betty, Portland, Ore.; and one sister, Lydia Sattler, Herreid.

Jacob was preceded in death by his parents; one brother; and six sisters.