FRED ENOCH GORDON 1878-1948

HARDIN, GORDON, SEYBERT, RYKEN, HAFFA, JEPSON

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 4/14/2005 at 12:03:39

FRED ENOCH GORDON 1878-1948

Final Rites Today For Fred E. Gordon

Funeral services are being held this afternoon at the Schutte Funeral Home for Fred E. Gordon, 70, lifelong Postville resident, who passed away at Postville Hospital Sunday evening. Rev. Frederick R. Ludwig, pastor of St. Paul's Church, will officiate at the service being held at 2:30 o'clock.

Mr. Gordon underwent an operation at Rochester August 12 and has been in failing health since that time. He was returned from Rochester to the Postville Hospital where he passed away. Burial will be in the Postville cemetery.

Fred E. Gordon, eighth child of Angus Gordon and Nancy Hardin Gordon, was born April 10, 1878 on a farm two miles west of Postville, and departed this life September 19, 1948 at Postville, aged 70 years, five months and nine days.

Mr. Gordon spent his entire life as a resident in the Postville community. On May 6, 1902 he was united in marriage with Eve Seybert. To this union three children were born, two of whom survive the passing of their father.

Throughout most of his adult life Mr. Gordon was engaged in the work of a carpenter. For the past four years he served as caretaker at the Postville Hospital. On August 12 of this year he entered St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, for an operation. It was while recovering from that operation that the affliction resulting in his death set in. On September 9 he was returned to the Postville Hospital, the institution with which he had become so intimately associated and where death came to him Sunday evening.

Mr. Gordon is survived by his widow; two children: a daughter, Ruth (Mrs. Peter Ryken) of Latimer, and a son, Keith, of Monona; four grandchildren; two sisters; Mrs. Ellen Haffa of California, and Mrs. Katherine Jepson of Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.

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