Johnny was born in a log cabin in Amsterdam about a year after the Verwolf family arrived from South Dakota. It was not long after his birth that his mother contracted tuberculosis and died when Johnny was just three years old. He was cared for primarily by his older sister, Maggie, then eleven years old, until his father remarried Helen Schuurmans in 1905.
Johnny attended Heeb School the first few years, but transferred to the Christian School at Churchill when it was organized in 1908. Johnny loved horses and had a buckskin of his own. As a boy he was a hard worker, very reliable, and preferred work to school.
In the fall of 1918 he was working on a threshing machine. Apparently Johnny drank some polluted water and contracted typhoid fever and was hospitalized in Bozeman. He was recovering and due to be discharged on November 25th. The night of November 24th, the hospital notified the family that Johnny had come down with influenza, the world-wide epidemic scourge of 1918. He died the next day, in the prime of his young manhood.
Published in The Butte Miner (Butte, Montana) on 02 Dec 1918:
The funeral of John Verwolf, Jr. was held Friday afternoon at the Holland cemetery in the Holland settlement near this city. John Verwolf Jr. was the youngest son of John Verwolf of Amsterdam. He died at the Deaconess hospital in Bozeman Monday morning of pneumonia. He was born Oct. 6, 1899. He leaves two sisters and two brothers, besides his parents, to mourn his loss.
Johnny attended Heeb School the first few years, but transferred to the Christian School at Churchill when it was organized in 1908. Johnny loved horses and had a buckskin of his own. As a boy he was a hard worker, very reliable, and preferred work to school.
In the fall of 1918 he was working on a threshing machine. Apparently Johnny drank some polluted water and contracted typhoid fever and was hospitalized in Bozeman. He was recovering and due to be discharged on November 25th. The night of November 24th, the hospital notified the family that Johnny had come down with influenza, the world-wide epidemic scourge of 1918. He died the next day, in the prime of his young manhood.
Published in The Butte Miner (Butte, Montana) on 02 Dec 1918:
The funeral of John Verwolf, Jr. was held Friday afternoon at the Holland cemetery in the Holland settlement near this city. John Verwolf Jr. was the youngest son of John Verwolf of Amsterdam. He died at the Deaconess hospital in Bozeman Monday morning of pneumonia. He was born Oct. 6, 1899. He leaves two sisters and two brothers, besides his parents, to mourn his loss.
Johnny was born in a log cabin in Amsterdam about a year after the Verwolf family arrived from South Dakota. It was not long after his birth that his mother contracted tuberculosis and died when Johnny was just three years old. He was cared for primarily by his older sister, Maggie, then eleven years old, until his father remarried Helen Schuurmans in 1905.
Johnny attended Heeb School the first few years, but transferred to the Christian School at Churchill when it was organized in 1908. Johnny loved horses and had a buckskin of his own. As a boy he was a hard worker, very reliable, and preferred work to school.
In the fall of 1918 he was working on a threshing machine. Apparently Johnny drank some polluted water and contracted typhoid fever and was hospitalized in Bozeman. He was recovering and due to be discharged on November 25th. The night of November 24th, the hospital notified the family that Johnny had come down with influenza, the world-wide epidemic scourge of 1918. He died the next day, in the prime of his young manhood.
Published in The Butte Miner (Butte, Montana) on 02 Dec 1918:
The funeral of John Verwolf, Jr. was held Friday afternoon at the Holland cemetery in the Holland settlement near this city. John Verwolf Jr. was the youngest son of John Verwolf of Amsterdam. He died at the Deaconess hospital in Bozeman Monday morning of pneumonia. He was born Oct. 6, 1899. He leaves two sisters and two brothers, besides his parents, to mourn his loss.
Johnny attended Heeb School the first few years, but transferred to the Christian School at Churchill when it was organized in 1908. Johnny loved horses and had a buckskin of his own. As a boy he was a hard worker, very reliable, and preferred work to school.
In the fall of 1918 he was working on a threshing machine. Apparently Johnny drank some polluted water and contracted typhoid fever and was hospitalized in Bozeman. He was recovering and due to be discharged on November 25th. The night of November 24th, the hospital notified the family that Johnny had come down with influenza, the world-wide epidemic scourge of 1918. He died the next day, in the prime of his young manhood.
Published in The Butte Miner (Butte, Montana) on 02 Dec 1918:
The funeral of John Verwolf, Jr. was held Friday afternoon at the Holland cemetery in the Holland settlement near this city. John Verwolf Jr. was the youngest son of John Verwolf of Amsterdam. He died at the Deaconess hospital in Bozeman Monday morning of pneumonia. He was born Oct. 6, 1899. He leaves two sisters and two brothers, besides his parents, to mourn his loss.
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