May L Becking 1899-1935

BECKING, CASSIDY, MCNAMARA, PLUEMER, BAKKE

Posted By: A. Bruce Owens (email)
Date: 12/29/2008 at 21:14:05

Mrs. William Becking
Passes Last Thursday

Sudden Death Takes Young Mother at Home in Center Township at Early Hour May 16.

Died, at her home in Section 7, Center township, sometime Thursday morning, May 16th, the above named young woman
Mr. Wm. Becking was appalled on arising Thursday morning last, to find his good wife cold in death. Hearing her up after midnight, he was talking to her but she did not complain or alarm him and so he gave the matter little or no thought at the time.
Deceased was the oldest daughter (May L.) of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cassidy, of Lafayette township. She was born August 8, 1899, and educated in the rural schools of that township and St. Clara's Academy, Clinton, Iowa, and had taught a number of rural schools in this county before her marriage June 7, 1921, to Wm. Becking, oldest son of J. W. and Eva Becking of Lansing, who survives her with two sons by a former marriage. She is also survived by her parents, brothers Devillo, Clem and Thomas, and sisters, Marcella, Sedonia, Clara Rose and LaVon.
Mrs. Becking was a woman devoted to her home first and a real help-mate to her husband, and next came love, and Christian charity to neighbors and friends, as defined by the Catholic church to which she was a life-long adherent, being a faithful member of St. Mary's parish, Lycurgus, at the time of her death and since her marriage to Mr. Becking, prior to that belonging to Immaculate Conception, Wexford, where she was baptized.
Funeral from St. Mary's to Gethsemane cemetery, Lansing, where Father McNamara accompanied the remains and gave the final blessing at the graveside.
Pluemer & Bakke of Waukon were the undertakers in charge and for the first time in the history of Gethsemane, a funeral tent was in use there.