Progress Review
LaPort City, Black Hawk Co. Iowa
March 22, 1928
John C. Hecker
The following obituary of John C. Hecker, whose tragic death was narrated in the March first issue of this paper, was clipped from the Postville Herald:[Allamakee co. IA]
John Christian Hecker was born in Postville, November 23, 1876, and died at his home northwest of Postville, Sunday, February 26, 1928, aged a few months more than 52 years. He graduated from the Postville High school with the class of 1892. On August 29, 1905, he was united in marriage with Miss Lena Bedenbender, who survives him, as do also his father, R.F. Hecker; two brothers, Robert M., and Joseph Hecker, all of this city; and one sister, Mrs. Josephine Moody of Excelsior, Minn. He has for a number of years been associated with his father and brothers as a member of the firm of R.F. Hecker & Sons, in the garage and machine business.
The above is in brief the life story of a man whose entire span of years was spent wholly in this city and was of so noble and high a character as to need no encomiums at our hands. He was honorable and upright, a man of intelligence, integrity and industry, a good friend, neighbor and citizen, whose loss to this community is one that will be sorely felt. With friends innumerable we mourn his untimely passing and to those bound to him by closer ties our hearts go out in sympathy as unbounded as it is sincere.
The funeral was held from the Community presbyterian church at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, conducted by the Masonic fraternity of which he was an honored member, Brother R.R. Douglass of this city officiating for the local lodge. It was one of the most largely attended funeral gatherings ever held in this city and the floral offerings were profuse and beautiful, all attesting the high place Mr. Hecker held in the hearts of a community to whom his life was an open book. Interment was made in Postville cemetery.
(views: 629)