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MCKITRICK, Samuel 1847-1937

MCKITRICK, STONER, BERRY, AULD

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 2/2/2013 at 04:35:38

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Wednesday, March 31, 1937]

MCKITRICK RITES AT CEDAR FALLS TO BE THURSDAY

Resident of City 21 Years Dies of Heart Trouble, Complications.

CEDAR FALLS, IOWA - Funeral services for Samuel McKitrick, 89, resident of this city the past 21 years, who died of heart trouble and complications at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at Sartori hospital, will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the home, 2316 Tremont street, and at 3 p.m. at teh Methodist Episcopal church.

Dr. Earle A. Baker, pastor, assisted by Rev. W.G. Crowder will conduct the services. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

Mr. McKitrick was taken to the hospital last Saturday following a shoulder fracture received in a fall. He had been in failing health for several months.

Surviving are his widow and one daughter, Miss Clara McKitrick, princpal of Washington Irving grade school, Waterloo. A son, Reuben, former head of the economics department at Iowa State Teachers college, died in 1919. Four grandchildren survive: Mrs. R.O. Berry, 531 Kingbard avenue, Waterloo; Mrs. Max Auld, Los Angeles; Helen McKitrick, 2303 Iowa street, Cedar Falls; and Roger McKitrick, Los Angeles; and a great granddaughter, Patty Berry, Waterloo.

Mr. McKitrick was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 23, 1847, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth McKitrick. In 1865 he moved to Nebraska, and followed the teaching profession during his early life, later turning to farming.

He graduated from Heidelberg college, Tiffin, O., in 1878, and was superintendent of schools at Port Clinton, O., and at Steel City and at Odell, Neb.

He married Emma Stoner at Tiffin, O., Oct. 16, 1879, and they moved to Oklahoma in 1900 and back to Waterloo in 1912. They moved to their present home at Cedar Falls in 1916, and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Oct. 16, 1929.


 

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