Obituary

FAIRMONT - Henry J. Nobis, 88, died Wednesday afternoon in a local hospital. He had entered the hospital Saturday. His services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Zion Lutheran Church at Fairmont with Pastor Melvin G. Herring officiating. Burial will follow in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery under the direction of Henninger- Allen Funeral Home.

Nobis was born Dec 6, 1886 in Seward County, Neb. He was reared in that area, coming to Oklahoma with his parents in 1902 where they settled near Fairmont. He married Carolena Wyssmann in Fairmont April 14, 1915. They established their home on a farm there. She died Feb 13, 1965. He had farmed in the Fairmont area all of his life.

He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Fairmont.

Survivors include seven sons, Elmer, of the home, Marvin, Cincinnati, Ohio, Harold, Alva, Raymond, Waukomis. Leonard. Enid. Donald, St. Louis, Mo., and Roland, Enid, three daughters, Mrs. Glenn (Esther) Loesch, Fairmont, Mrs. Kenneth (Bernice) Fischaber, Enid, and Mrs. Arnold (Arlene) ZumMallen, Okarche, 31 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Dunker, Otis, Colo. Besides his wife, Carolena, he was preceded in death by one grandson.

Memorials may be made to the Lutheran Hour or the Church Hymnal Fund with the church or the funeral home acting as custodian.

From Family information; My dad's birth name was: Johan Heinrich Wilhelm Nobis. Dad also had a cousin with a similar name: Johann Heinrich Martin Nobis and when they both ended up moving to Fairmont they kept getting their mail mixed up. My Dad decided to legally change his name to Henry J. Nobis. Ironically 30 years later a second cousin, brother to Johann (John) also moved to Fairmont. His name was Henry J. F. Nobis and again mail was mixed. Don Nobis