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The Bryan Daily Eagle, Bryan, Texas, Friday, December 28, 1956

Rosary Held Tonight For V. J. Fridel
Valentine J. Fridel, 91, died Thursday at 5:40 in a local hospital. He was born in Moravia Aug. 8, 1865, but came to the United States with his parents when a lad of four years and had lived in the Kurten community for 87 years engaged in the farming industry.
The Rosary will be recited tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the chapel of Hillier Funeral Home by the Rev. Tim Valenta. The same priest will conduct a short prayer service in the chapel Saturday at 9:45 a. m. and also the Requiem High Mass at 10 o’clock in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Interment will be made in Mount Calvary cemetery by the side of his late wife who died in 1947.
Six nephews will serve as pallbearers.
Eight daughters and two sons survive him: Mrs. Lena Regmund, Mrs. Verna Hahn and Miss Annie Fridel of Bryan; Misses Bernadette, Victoria and Josephine Fridel of Kurten; Miss Mary Fridel. Mount Belvue, Miss Frances Fridel of St. Louis, Mo.; Antone and Frank Fridel of Kurten. One sister, Mrs. Mary Krohn, of North Zulch: one brother, Peter Fridel of Ennis; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren are the other survivors.