WEBBER, George Edward 1886-1948

WEBBER, CUTLER, SMITH, SURRELL

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 7/30/2014 at 22:59:58

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, October 29, 1948]

George Edward Webber, 52, of 522 Conger Street, was found dead Friday morning in a barn on the L. A. Rowland farm, a mile south and two and a half miles west of Waterloo.

Webber had not been seen since Tuesday morning. He had been doing carpentry work on the farm and had been living there while waiting the arrival of material needed to continue his work

Coroner Sidney D. Smith said death was due to a heart attack. Dr. Smith said the body was found in a dark corner of a barn near a hog pen by relatives who had been conducting an intensive search. Mr. Webber's car was found parked in the barn yard.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Webber, he was born in Humboldt, Iowa, September 12, 1886. He married Irene Cutler in 1926, the marriage later ending in divorce.

Surviving are a son, Leonard, a marine, stationed at Bremerton, Wash.; three brothers: M. A. 522 Conger Street, C. M., in California, and J. C., Oxnard, Calif., and three sisters: Mrs. Esther Cutler, Ft. Hall, Ida., Mrs. Nellie Smith, 319 Utica Street, and Mrs. Therresa Surrell, 522 Conger Street.

The body is at Kearns Garden Chapel, where funeral arrangements are being made.

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Gravestone at Calvary Cemetery, Waterloo, IA inscribed:

George E. Weber
IOWA PVT 163 DEPOT BRIGADE WORLD WAR I