The funeral for Gottfried August Harr, Wishek, North Dakota will be held Monday, January 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM at Dahlstrom Funeral Home in Wishek, ND. Visitation will be held two hours before the service at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Lehr City Cemetery, Lehr, ND.

Gottfried August Harr of Wishek, ND was born on July 1, 1915 on the family farm southeast of Lehr, ND, the son of Gottlieb and Katherine (Miller) Harr. As a young boy he moved with his family to a farm they homesteaded, 10 miles southeast of Lehr. He received his education in rural McIntosh County Schools and graduated from the 8th grade at Lehr Public School. Gottfried lived and worked with his family on the farm. In 1936, he traveled with his father for a short time throughout central and southern United States, working for the National Weekly Newspaper, which included the Dakota Freie Presse and 13 other weekly newspapers. In 1936 Gottfried moved to California to work for a short period of time. From there, he returned to North Dakota and then moved to Lansing, MI where he worked on a farm. In 1938 he returned to manage the Harr family farm near Lehr. Following his father's death, Gottfried moved to California in 1943 along with his mother and several of his brothers and sisters. In 1945 he sold his farm machinery and livestock and moved to Edmonton, Alberta, CA to continue his education at the Christian Training Institute. By the spring of 1948, his love of farming drew him back to the family homestead where he continued to farm until he retired and moved to Wishek. On December 4, 1962 Gottfried married Viola Sayler at Venturia, ND. Gottfried and Viola farmed together on the family homestead. In early March of 1970, Viola was killed in a car accident. On October 6, 1984 he married Edna Kienzle at Gackle, ND. Following their marriage they sold the farm and moved to a new home they built in Wishek, where they lived until they both entered the Wishek Home for the Aged in December of 2009.
Gottfried loved life and he loved his Lord and Savior Jesus. He loved to farm and enjoyed fishing whenever he could. Throughout his life he was involved in church ministry at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Lehr and also spent many years with the Gideon organization as a member of the South Central Camp of ND.

Gottfried died Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at the Wishek Home for the Aged. He was 96 years old.

He is survived by his wife Edna of Wishek, sisters in law Helen Harr, Lansing MI, Delores Harr, Lodi CA, Violet Harr, Lodi CA, Esther Harr, Wishek ND, and Carolyn Miller, Ashley ND, one brother-in-law, Calvin Adolph, Lodi, CA, along with many nieces and nephews who loved him and whose lives were enriched by him. He is also survived by the many wonderful extended family members, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of his beloved wife Edna, all of whom Gottfried adopted into his heart and loved them and cared about them. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Viola, his parents, and ten brothers and sisters, Jacob, Christina Perman, Katherina Walz, John, Christian, Emanuel, Adam, Reinhold, Anna, and Lydia Adolph.