James Edward BLOCH

Notes:

Funeral services were conducted on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:30 P.M. at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. Marie Eckberg officiating. Casket bearers were Rod Pederson, Kenny Jerve, Galen Rud, Merrill Morlock, Rick Christenson and Mark Morlock. Interment was in the Jevnaker Lutheran Cemetery.

James Bloch, of Montevideo, died on Friday, October 9, 2009 at the Chippewa County - Montevideo Hospital at the age of 72.

James Edward Bloch was born on January 6, 1937 in Worthington, MN to Harold and Susan (Schmidt) Bloch. He attended Westbrook High School, graduating in 1955. He enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1956 and after serving four years, was honorably discharged in 1960. He spent seventeen months aboard ship in the Aleutian Islands, was stationed both in Adak and Kodiak, sailed down to Juneau and out to Attu (four times) and over the Arctic Circle to Kotzebue, stopping at Nome. Following his discharge, he worked at various companies before moving to Montevideo in 1966, where he worked at Control Data, which is currently known as MTI/SL. On December 13, 1975 he was united in marriage to Charlene Pederson at Jevnaker Lutheran Church. He was a member of Jevnaker Lutheran Church, holding numerous council positions and served one year as president. He loved to garden and was generous with his time helping others. He loved kids, doing crossword and sodoku puzzles, Nascar racing and out of door activities such as fishing and hunting.

Survivors include his wife, Charlene; four children: Cheryl (Greg) Tovsen, Prior Lake, MN; Steve (Judy) Bloch, Montevideo, MN; Scott (Julie) Bloch, Svea, MN and Lori (Tim) McNichols, Greenville, WI; nine grandchildren; a great grandson; three sisters and seven brothers.

Preceding him in death were his parents, a sister, two sisters-in-law, and a niece. 

James married D.M. KNUDSEN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married C.M. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1912-06073

Notes:

Harold was the informant for his mother’s death certificate. At the time of his mother’s death he lived in Eagle Bend.

Harold married Susan Lena SCHMIDT. Susan was born on 26 Jun 1911 in Minnesota; died on 4 Apr 1997 in Anoka County, Minnesota; was buried in Westbrook Cemetery, Cottonwood County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1997-MN-009652

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-003319

Notes:

He, his wife, and his son Harold lived in Rose Hill Twp, Cottonwood County, in the 1930 census.

Gustave married Elizabeth A (Lizzie) HASS on 27 Mar 1903 in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. Elizabeth (daughter of August HASS) was born on 5 Nov 1880 in Minnesota; died on 31 Oct 1971 in Westbrook, Cottonwood County, Minnesota; was buried in Westbrook Cemetery, Cottonwood County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1971-MN-028345

Notes:

Died as a widow of ventricular fibrillation due to coronary occlusion.

Died:
died at Schmidt Memorial Hospital

Notes:

Married:
as Gustav Block and Lizzie Haas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1921-MN-002616

Notes:

In the 1880 census, he is recorded as Fredrick Blach. He and his family live in York County, Nebraska. He and his wife were born in Prussia. According to postings on Ancestry’s Bloch board, there were a number of Blochs who came to Nebraska from Pozen. Fredrick is likely a sibling or cousin of, for example, Gustav (wife Emelie) Bloch and/or Herman Rudolph Bloch. These Blochs were German Lutherans.

In the 1895 state census, he and Augusta and family live in Rose Hill in Cottonwood County.

He is a farmer in the Rose Hill Twp of Cottonwood County at the time of the 1900 census. He came to the U.S. in 1873 and his wife in 1877.

He and his family live in Rose Hill Twp, Cottonwood County in the 1910 census. He came to the U.S. in 1873, his wife in 1887.

He and Augusta and Laura live in Westbrook Twp, Cottonwood County, at the time of the 1920 census. In that census, Frederick and “Agusta” both claim to have been born in Pozen, Germany, and that their mother tongue was German.

Birth:
probably Poznan in west-central Poland, then part of Prussia

Fredrick married Wilhelmina (Minnie) FECHNER. Wilhelmina was born about 1849 in Prussia; died before 1888 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]