Obituary

  Herman J. Reiff, 65, of Breda, a mason and a lifelong resident of Carroll County, died at 9 p.m. Thursday at his home in Breda. He had been in failing health and ill with the flu the past several days.
  Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday with military honors. (Details: Obituary Section.)
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Friday, March 4, 1960, p. 1)

Herman Joseph Reiff

  Herman Joseph Reiff, 65, died in his home at Breda at 9 p.m. Thursday, March 3. He had been ill with flu for three days and in failing health for the past four years.
  Requiem mass with military honors by the Breda Legion Post will be offered in St. Bernard Church, Breda, at 11 a.m. Monday with the Rev. J. P. Hausmann officiating. Burial with military rites will be in the St. Bernard Cemetery.
  Friends may call at the Twit Funeral Home in Carroll after 7 p.m. Saturday. The rosary will be prayed in the funeral home at 8 p.m. Sunday by the St. Bernard Holy Name Society, led by Fr. Hausmann.
  Mr. Reiff was born January 24, 1895 at Mt. Carmel and was a lifelong resident of Carroll County. His parents were the late Joseph Reiff and Susan Underberg Reiff. He attended school at Mt. Carmel and Maple River.
  After finishing school, he assisted his parents in farming and moved with them to a farm 1 1/2 miles southeast of Breda in 1917. He served in France during World War I and, after the war, returned to Breda where he was employed as a mason until 1956 when he became ill with bronchial asthma and a heart condition forcing his retirement.
  He was married on November 25, 1935 to Mary Bohnenkamp Heires at the Visitation Church in Maryhill, Iowa, with his uncle, the late Rev. J. A. Underberg, officiating.
  He is a member of S. Bernard's Church, the Holy Name Society, and Fred F. and Norman J. Bruning Post of the American Legion.
  Surviving are his wife; five brothers - Joe of Mason City; Leo and Mike of Breda, Al and Lawrence of Carroll; and six sisters: Mrs. Carl Josephine Nees, Early, Mrs. Clem (Kate) Henkenius, Paton, Mrs. John (Christine) Wempe and Mrs. Bernard (Helen) Dougherty, Ft. Dodge, Mrs. Mary Wempe and Frances Reiff, Breda.
  Preceding him in death were his mother who passed away n March 1943, his father who died in December, 1942, and a brother John who died in December, 1955.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Friday, March 4, 1960, p. 7)