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1904–1984 • John Edwin Eiben 80, died Monday, June 25, 1984 in the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha.
Services were held Thursday, June 28 in the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. The Rev. Eugene Soland officiated. John Edwin Eiben, the son of William and Henrietta Lubben Eiben; was born April 25, 1904 at Fayette, lowa. The family moved to Nebraska where he received his edcucation in Wymore and Allen. He then farmed with a brother and his mother at Dixon. He married Gertrude Knoell of Dixon on Dec. 30, 1925 in Sioux City, lowa. He continued to farm at Dixon for six years and then drove a truck for 11 years. He later farmed for to years in Gray, lowa, He owned and operated a resort in Minnesota for 20, years before moving to Elk Horn tour years ago. Survivors Include his wife, Gertrude of Elk Horn, lowa; five sons and daughters-in-law; four daughters and sons-in-law; 3 grandchildren; 32 great grandchildren; and two brothers. He was preceded in death by his parents, two grandsons and one Infant granddaughter. Pailbearers were Timothy Eiben, Gene Johnson, Glenn Lyons, Michael Haskins:John Anderson and Kenneth Eiben:
Burial was in the Concord Cemetery In Concord.