ALTAMONT NEWS 2/3/1926 HOME OF HIS SON MR. J. A. ALWERT ON FRIDAY MONRING FUNERAL SERVICES ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON ONE OF THE OLDEST MEN IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY ANSWERED THE FINAL SUMMONS ON FRIDAY MORNING. MR. JOHN ALWERT SR. WHO REACHED THE RIPE AGE OF NINETY FOUR YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND TWENTY TWO DAYS. MR. ALWERT DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS CHILDREN MR. AND MRS. J. ALWERT, WITH WHOM HE HAD MADE HIS HOME SINCE 1904. MR. ALWSERT WAS BORN IN GERMANY ON JULY 7, 1831 AND HE WAS THE LAST OF A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDRN. HE CAME TO AMERICAN IN ? LANDING IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY ON MAY 7TH OF THAT YEAR. HE WENT TO NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, WHERE HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS ELIZABETH KROHN ON MAY 20, 1855. IN 1861 MR. ALWERT AND FAMILY CAM TO THIS COMMUNITY, SETTLING ON A FARM SOUTH OF ALTAMONT. TO THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN, AUGUST AND HENRY DYING IN INFANCY. THE ELDEST SON FRED J. ALWERT WAS STRICKEN ILL LAST WEEK AND DIED ON MONDAY NIGHT. THE SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE: MRS. FERDINAND BERG OF THE BETHLEHEM NEIGHBORHOOD, JOHN ALWERT OF ALTAMONT, AND RUDOLPH ALWERT OF SPRINGFIELD. IN ADITION TO THESE CHILDREN, MR. ALWERT LEAVES NINETEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD MAKING IN THIS FAMILY UNTIL MR. ALWERTS PASSING FIVE GENERATIONS. MR. ALWERT PRECEDED THE HUSBAND ON FEBRUARY 18, 1906. MR. ALWERT AND HIS GOOD WIFE WERE RAISED IN THE LUTHERAN CHURCH AND THEY BELIEVED IN ITS TEACHINGS NOT ONLY PREACTICING THE TEACHINGS BUT RAISING THE ENTIRE FAMILY IN THE SAME FAITH. AND WE NOTE THE PASSING OF A MAN WHO KNEW THE COMMUNITY FROM ITS EARLIEST BEGINNINGS, THROUGH A PERIOD OF ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF A CENTURY. HE WAS ONE OF THE BUILDERS AND WE OWE MUCH TO MEN OF THIS STERLING TYPE. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH BY REV. H. F.GUSE, PASTOR OF THE ST PUAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS AT THE ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CEMETERY.