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CREUTZER, Ernest Adolf

Ernest Adolf Creutzer

1880 – 1951

One of the earliest residents of Yarrow, Ernest Adolf Creutzer, passed away suddenly at his home, 968 Wilson Road. Born in Sweden in 1880, Mr. Creutzer had been a resident of Yarrow since 1908.

Coming from Sweden in 1902, Mr. Creutzer lived in Minnesota, U.S.A. for some years until he came to live on the Old Yale Road in Yarrow. He took up farming and worked for some time on old Yale Road at Yarrow and on construction of the B.C. Electric tram line. Since then, he had been a mining mechanic at several mines in British Columbia, his later years being spent at Copper Mountain and at Wells.

Since his retirement in 1947, Mr. Creutzer had made two trips to his native Sweden and was returning from a visit six weeks ago when he became ill. After receiving medical treatment at Chicago, he appeared to be recovering and he had returned to Yarrow.

Mr. Creutzer is survived by three brothers and two sisters in Sweden and by a niece, Mrs. Kerstin Nelson, Chicago.

Funeral services were conducted at Henderson’s chapel with the Rev. J.E. Bigelow officiating. Cremation followed in Vancouver.

   

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