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SWEITZER, Bernice Marion 1876-1954

SWEITZER, DONNAN, AITKEN, PARRIS, BROWN, GREGG MILLER

Posted By: Merikay Mestad (email)
Date: 9/2/2009 at 08:40:43

Sweitzer Rites Sat. at Hudson

HUDSON—Funeral services for Bernice Marion Sweitzer, 78, longtime business man and banker here, who died Thursday at his home of a heart attack, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Community church, Rev. Chester B. McKean officiating. Burial will be in the Hudson cemetery. The body will be taken to the church at 9 a. m. Saturday from the Locke funeral home at Waterloo.

Mr. Sweitzer was born Sept. 21, 1876, on a farm three and a half miles southeast of Hudson, in Orange township, Black Hawk county, son of Jonas D. and Lydia Sweitzer.

He attended country school and later took business courses at Mt. Morris college, Mt. Morris Ill., and at Waterloo Business College in Waterloo. He left the farm in 1896 and took employment with the Renken Drug Co. in Waterloo.

In Implement Business.

In 1898 Mr. Sweitzer, with C. H. Abbs, purchased the hardware and farm implement business in Hudson from Cain Brothers & Co. In 1905 he purchased the interest of Abbs in the Implement business and sold his interest in the hardware business to Abbs.

Mr. Sweitzer continued operating the implement business until 1916, when he sold out to C. A. Bixby of Hudson. In 1906, with J. M. Slusher, he entered the automobile business, selling Ford and Reo cars. This was three years before the Model T. was manufactured, and when there were only four Ford agencies in the state.

In 1911 Mr. Sweitzer purchased the interest of Slusher and continued to operate the business, handling Ford and Dodge cars until 1924, when the Ford business was sold to A. M. Donnan of Independence.

Headed Bank 16 Years.

He had been president of the Hudson bank the last 16 years. He married Martha Lees Aitken of Cedar Falls Dec. 30, 1903, and she preceded him in death.

Deceased was a member of the Hudson Community church, member of the Commercial club and was a past noble grand of Hudson Lodge No. 526, IOOF.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. H. C. Parris, 420 Kingsley avenue, and Mrs. T. M. Brown, 2017 West Third, both of Waterloo, and Mrs. James Gregg, Postville; four grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Grant Miller, 935 Leavitt, Waterloo; and two brothers, Charlie Sweitzer, 320 Bertch avenue, Waterloo, and Jay Sweitzer, Chicago.

A sister also preceded him in death.
-- Waterloo Daily Courier (26 Nov 1954:15) w/picture


 

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