FIKE, Charles d: 1903

FIKE, MILLER

Posted By: Merikay Mestad (email)
Date: 8/21/2009 at 09:49:34

Charles Fike. This morning at 7 o’clock at the home of his father-in-law, Noah Miller, of Orange township, Charles Fike passed away after an illness of typhoid fever. Because a number of the other members of the family are afflicted with the same disease, there will be no regular funeral services, only a prayer at the home at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery near the South Waterloo church.
Decedent was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Fike, who also live in Orange township. He married Miss Myrtle Miller, and the couple have been living for the past four years on a farm in Dakota. They rented their farm and returned to this vicinity last spring so that Mrs. Fike could be near her mother and help her in her sickness and her affliction.
Decedent was born in Illinois and was 27 years of age. He was a young man who was well liked by all who came in contact with him, and his passing just as life was opening with its opportunities and blessings is sincerely mourned, not only by the relatives, but by the friends in general. --Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa (14 Sep 1903)