Was a carpenter for many years in Ord. He was a very skilled carpenter and woodworker. He was something of a ladies man, but he never smoked, drank, or cussed. He built some homes in Loup City, Nebraska, and several Ord, NE homes, and the Presbyterian Church in Ord. (The Presbyterian Church building, a brick building, was built about 1952. The church closed in 2011, and the building was purchased by the city and turned into the Ord City Offices.) He also built a landmark round barn in 1912 on the Sherman-Valley Counties line, between Loup City and Ord, Nebraska. It was no longer in use in 2001, but was still standing, but the roof was beginning to fall in. Alfred died suddenly of a heart attack.
After his first wife, Bertha died, Al roamed some, and either married, or lived with Charolette/Charoletta (Lapping) Edward. She was called Lottie. They were not together long. But during that time they lived mostly in her home town of St. Edward, Nebraska...though Al spent a bit more than a year of that same time in the Kansas State Penitentiary (for having forged a check in the amount of $9.28, because he and his family were destitute...it was during the early part of "the great depression").
He was a great gardner. In his senior years he raised a few acres of sweet corn, strawberries, and vegetables that he gave to friends. He was an artist with inlaid woods; he made elaborate card tables and coffee tables, each with several thousand pieces of wood in artistic designs. He had made a design for his coffin made of thousands and thousands of pieces of inlaid woods. He had only a small part of it put together when he suddenly died, so he was buried in a simple commercial coffin.
He was a good grandpa. His funeral was conducted in Ord, Nebraska by his grandson, Rev. J. Keith Cook.
After his first wife, Bertha died, Al roamed some, and either married, or lived with Charolette/Charoletta (Lapping) Edward. She was called Lottie. They were not together long. But during that time they lived mostly in her home town of St. Edward, Nebraska...though Al spent a bit more than a year of that same time in the Kansas State Penitentiary (for having forged a check in the amount of $9.28, because he and his family were destitute...it was during the early part of "the great depression").
He was a great gardner. In his senior years he raised a few acres of sweet corn, strawberries, and vegetables that he gave to friends. He was an artist with inlaid woods; he made elaborate card tables and coffee tables, each with several thousand pieces of wood in artistic designs. He had made a design for his coffin made of thousands and thousands of pieces of inlaid woods. He had only a small part of it put together when he suddenly died, so he was buried in a simple commercial coffin.
He was a good grandpa. His funeral was conducted in Ord, Nebraska by his grandson, Rev. J. Keith Cook.
Was a carpenter for many years in Ord. He was a very skilled carpenter and woodworker. He was something of a ladies man, but he never smoked, drank, or cussed. He built some homes in Loup City, Nebraska, and several Ord, NE homes, and the Presbyterian Church in Ord. (The Presbyterian Church building, a brick building, was built about 1952. The church closed in 2011, and the building was purchased by the city and turned into the Ord City Offices.) He also built a landmark round barn in 1912 on the Sherman-Valley Counties line, between Loup City and Ord, Nebraska. It was no longer in use in 2001, but was still standing, but the roof was beginning to fall in. Alfred died suddenly of a heart attack.
After his first wife, Bertha died, Al roamed some, and either married, or lived with Charolette/Charoletta (Lapping) Edward. She was called Lottie. They were not together long. But during that time they lived mostly in her home town of St. Edward, Nebraska...though Al spent a bit more than a year of that same time in the Kansas State Penitentiary (for having forged a check in the amount of $9.28, because he and his family were destitute...it was during the early part of "the great depression").
He was a great gardner. In his senior years he raised a few acres of sweet corn, strawberries, and vegetables that he gave to friends. He was an artist with inlaid woods; he made elaborate card tables and coffee tables, each with several thousand pieces of wood in artistic designs. He had made a design for his coffin made of thousands and thousands of pieces of inlaid woods. He had only a small part of it put together when he suddenly died, so he was buried in a simple commercial coffin.
He was a good grandpa. His funeral was conducted in Ord, Nebraska by his grandson, Rev. J. Keith Cook.
After his first wife, Bertha died, Al roamed some, and either married, or lived with Charolette/Charoletta (Lapping) Edward. She was called Lottie. They were not together long. But during that time they lived mostly in her home town of St. Edward, Nebraska...though Al spent a bit more than a year of that same time in the Kansas State Penitentiary (for having forged a check in the amount of $9.28, because he and his family were destitute...it was during the early part of "the great depression").
He was a great gardner. In his senior years he raised a few acres of sweet corn, strawberries, and vegetables that he gave to friends. He was an artist with inlaid woods; he made elaborate card tables and coffee tables, each with several thousand pieces of wood in artistic designs. He had made a design for his coffin made of thousands and thousands of pieces of inlaid woods. He had only a small part of it put together when he suddenly died, so he was buried in a simple commercial coffin.
He was a good grandpa. His funeral was conducted in Ord, Nebraska by his grandson, Rev. J. Keith Cook.
