Frederick Godfred Rubin

RUBIN, WALTER, OMAN, GRAVETT, HUNTINGTON, LUNDQUIST, KAPPLE, LYONS

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 9/21/2015 at 16:32:55

Mr. Frederick Godfrey Rubin resided 59 years in Adams County, most of these years were spent in Mercer Township. He has established a reputation for honesty, integrity, and deep Christian Convictions.
He had been a man of regular health until six years ago when he was forced to retire from active farm life and came to Corning to make his home. However, his illness was not considered acute until a few weeks ago when he suffered a light stroke of paralysis. Thursday he was taken suddenly ill and suffered a second stroke from which he never recovered consciousness and died in a short time.
Fred Godfrey Rubin was born in Berne, Switzerland, February 11, 1865 and died February 13, 1941, aged 78 years and 2 days. He came to the United States in 1880 at the age of 15 and lived one year in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a sister. At that time he came to Mercer Township, Adams County and worked on farms until the year when he bought his own farm in Mercer Township. On April 27, 1892 he was married to Matilda Walter, the ceremony taking place in the Mt. Zion Church. To this union four children were born, Mrs. Loy Oman, who lived in Gothenburg, Nebraska and who died in 1930; Clarence Rubin of Lenox; and Fred and Lonnie of Corning. His wife died in 1901.
From 1901 until 1904, he kept the home going with housekeepers and that year he was married to Carrie A. Gravett of Corning, Iowa. Seven children were born to them, there being Minnie Huntington, New Market, Emmet of Villisca, Pauline Lundquist of Corning; Joseph Rubin and Evelyn Kapple of Brooks; Edith of Corning, Verda Lyons of Rullo, Missouri. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren and many old friends and neighbors who sorrow with the family.
Mr. Rubin was a good father, devotion has been repaid in the kindest of love and care on the part of his dear ones. He was friendly and kindly in his attitude to his neighbors.
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Church in Corning, Iowa, Sunday afternoon, February 16, at 2:30 conducted by the Rev. William Overhauler of Woodward, Iowa. Burial was in Methodist Grove Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, February 20, 1941, page 12