FRED G. HETZEL, died at his home in Avoca, Iowa, Monday Afternoon, April 26, 1937, aged ninety years, ten months and sixteen days. The funeral services were held at his late home Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment was in the Avoca (Graceland) Cemetery.

Fred G. Hetzel was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, June 10, 1846. When he was five years old his parents moved to Davenport, Iowa. They made the journey by boat, down the Ohio River to St. Louis and up the Misissippi River to Davenport in 1851. Here the family made their future home, and Fred Hetzel grew to boyhood on a farm and attended the public schools.

In 1874, Mr. Hetzel came to Avoca. Just five years after the town was laid out and the railroad reached this point. He engaged in the hardware business, which he followed for 52 years.

He leaves to mourn his loss two sons: Roy B. Hetzel of Avoca and Dr. Clarence Hetzel of Ogden, Utah; three daughters: Mrs. Olive Hetzel Howell and Miss Belle Hetzel of Avoca, and Mrs. Carl Battey of Boone, Iowa, six grandchilren and one brother, Henry Hetzel of Davenport.