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HEATH, Charles A. 1877-1943

HEATH, VAN DUYN, SMITH

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/29/2014 at 23:57:39

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, December 27, 1943, Waterloo, Iowa]

VETERAN TRAFFIC CHIEF ON RATH'S STAFF DIES HERE

Charles A. Heath, 66, Is Victim of Pneumonia After Operation.

Charles A. Heath, 66, of 517 Kingsley Avenue, for 32 years traffic manager for the Rath Packing Co., died of post-surgery pneumonia in St. Francis Hospital at 10:30 a.m. Monday. He had entered the hospital Dec. 19 for an operation the following day for gallstones and appendicitis. He had been steadily improving until 5:30 a. m. Monday when pneumonia developed.

He recently returned from a trip west to serve as chief witness for Rath Company at interstate commerce commission hearings in Denver. Colo., Los Angeles, Cal., San Francisco, Cal., and Portland, Ore.

Born Nov. 20, 1877, he was the son of John and Margaret Heath, Manchester, Ia.
At 19 he attended a telegraphy school in Des Moines, during high school years he was employed as a printer for the Manchester Press.

On finishing school in Des Moines he was employed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad as agent at Breda and several other towns in and about Carroll County.

After resigning his job at Breda, he came to Waterloo in 1902, and married May A. Van Duyn on July 8, 1902. For nearly a year he worked as night ticket agent in Scales Mound, Ill., transferring to Manchester, Ia., where he remained three years, and then to Dubuque, In. In Dubuque he was employed as dispatcher for the north branch of Illinois Central railroad.

In 1908 he and his family moved to Waterloo, where he worked as city ticket agent for Illinois Central Railroad for two years. He resigned to study at Gates Waterloo Business College in 1910. His first work after graduation from business school was with Miller Motor Co. as bookkeeper.

When he entered Rath's offices in 1911 as traffic manager, there were three employees in the entire office force and John W. Rath, former president, was handling the billing department personally.

Mr. Heath was a member of First Presbyterian church, had been formerly a member of the Fortnightly and Knife and Fork clubs, but had been inactive for the past two years because of ill health.

Surviving beside the widow are two sons, Dr. Merle A. Heath, Waynesboo. Va., and Lt. George C. Heath in the navy at Arlington, Va.; two brothers. William H., Des Moines, and Howard C., Rock Island. Ill.; his step-mother, Mrs. Margaret Heath, Manchester, Ia., two grandsons and one granddaughter.

One brother, Clyde, and one sister, Mrs. Floyd Smith, preceded him in death.

The body was taken to O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.


 

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