Frederick Kleber was a great cousin. He were very hard working but he did love to sing and sang at church and played in a dance band as a hobby. He and his mother, and in later years his wife, would come to Arizona and visit us. We went to Mexico twice fishing and up in the Colorado Rockies fishing. He did a lot of hunting but I never went with him on any of these trips. In later years he had cancer of the throat and learned to talk without a voice box and then he had cancer again which seemed to take his health. We visited him and Minnie, his wife, and really enjoyed their hospitality. Just a few months ago, he was put in a nursing home because of real poor health. His wife Minnie could not handle him because of her own physical health. He and his brother, Phillip, turned the ownership of their farm to Gene Elder, son of their sister who had managed it for years. Fred died in the Nursing Home after years of care and being visited by his wife daily.
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Obituary: Fred Kleber. Frederick H. “ Fred “ Kleber, 89, of Ault died Wednesday, March 25, at Bonell Good Samaritan Center. He was born June 15, 1908, in Arriba to John Philip and Elizabeth ( Stevens ) Kleber. On July 2, 1961, he married Minnie Jane Wiltse in Ault. A resident of Arriba and Ault areas all his life. Mr. Kleber was a farmer and rancher an the Ault area and had dairy cows for 50 years. He graduated from Ault High School now Highland High School. Mr. Kleber liked music, fishing and hunting, He had served for 20 years on the Wyatt School Board and was past president of the Cheyenne Milk Producers. A member of the first Lutheran Church of Ault. He also served on the Lutheran Church board. He also was a member of the Lions Club and Ault Senior Center. Survivors are his wife, Minnie Kleber of Ault, two step daughters, Deanna Hall and Marilyn Morris, both of Greeley; and a nephew, Gene Elder of Ault. Two sisters, Marion Jeremiassen and Margaret Elder, and a brother Philip Kleber, are deceased.
Services will be at 10 A.M. Friday at Allnutt Funeral Service Macy Chapel. Interment will be in the Eaton Cemetery.