J. G. Faber, 83

FABER, GLADE, RECHTENBACH, ZELLHOEFER, MAYES, PARKIS, GOELDNER, GRANDFIELD

Posted By: Peggy Elliott Webster (email)
Date: 2/10/2014 at 20:11:22

J. G. Faber, 83, pioneer resident of Adair county, died at his home in Greenfield, Thursday forenoon at 10:40 o'clock. He had been gathering up branches in his yard Wednesday afternoon, when stricken with a heart attack. He remained in a semi-conscious until he passed away.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Bickford-Poffenberger Funeral Home at 2:30. Dr. M. R. Talley conducted the services.

Music was furnished by Mrs. R. W. Hoyt, Mrs. Roy Alley, Russell Piper and Glen Piper with Ethel Carl as accompanist. The selections were: "Sometime We'll Understand" and "The Old Rugged Cross."

Those serving as casket bearers were: J. E. Howe, Will Heuckendorf, H. W. Crooks, J. B. Donnellan, A. L. Dorsey, and Nile Shirk. Burial took place in Fontanelle cemetery.

John Gustav Faber passed away at home Thursday morning, April 5, 1945, after an illness of a few hours. A son of John and Elizabeth Faber, he was born at LaMoille, IL , March 21, 1862. His age was 83 years and 15 days. He was the youngest of a family of six children, all except one sister having passed on. His mother preceded him in death July 5, 1915.

At the age of fifteen, he lost his father and went to live with an uncle, G. G. Rechtenbach and attended school at Ohio Station in Illinois. He later attended school at Naperville Academy at Naperville, Illinois. He worked for his brother Fred, for several years and then came to Iowa in 1884 where he lived for a short time with the same uncle with whom he had lived in Illinois but who had come to Iowa the year before, He bought his own farm near Bridgewater where his mother came to keep house for him.

He was united in marriage to Mary M. Glade of Fontanelle on December 24, 1885 at Grand Junction, Iowa at the home of his sister, Mrs. John Zellhoefer, whose husband, and Evangelical minister performed the ceremony. To that union eight children were born, one of whom died in infancy.

They made their home on the farm near Bridgewater for four years. Then in the year 1889 he bought a prairie farm in Summerset township. He spent most of that fall in improving the new place and moved his family there in the spring of 1890. This was the family home until they moved to Greenfield in 1917 where they have since resided. They celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary last December.

He was a Summerset township trustee who helped lay out the first addition to the Fontanelle cemetery. He was always keenly interested in public affairs.

Surviving are his widow and seven children: Frank, Glen, Mrs. R. D. Mayes, and Mrs Warren Parkis, all of Greenfield; Mrs. Melvin Goeldner of Osceola; Mrs. J. C. Grandfield of Creston; and Jesse of Des Moines; a sister , Mrs Sarah Zellhoefer of LeRoy, Illinois; eighteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, besides numerous other relatives and friends who mourn his passing.

Relatives and close friends attended the funeral included: Mrs. Minnie Allaback, Carpenter, Wyo.; Reuben and Ezra Faber, LaMoille, Ill.; Miss Nannie Faber, Mendota, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Faber and Miss Dorothy Faber, Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Goeldner and family, Osceola, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Grandfield and family, Creston; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mayes and son of Waterloo; Mrs. Hubert Everhart, Prescott; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fleming, Corning; Reverend and Mrs. Smith, Osceola, Mrs. George Sash and Mr. and Mrs. John Sash, Creston.

Source: The Mentor - 1945