Hans R. Beck, 1841-1908

BECK, HAROLDSON

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/13/2013 at 08:10:11

H. R. Beck was born September 16, 1841, in Denmark and came to the United States when twenty-four years of age. He lived in Chicago for 14 years when he came to Iowa and located at Alta. In February 1883 he was married to Miss Anna Haroldson and soon after he came to Spencer and has resided near here ever since.

He died Friday, April 24th at the home in Meadow township after an illness of about a year and a half. Funeral services were held at the church in Meadow township last Monday conducted by Rev. Soholm, of Royal. Interment was had in the Meadow cemetery. The wife and six children, three girls and three boys survive him and are left in comfortable circumstances.

Mr. Beck was a kind and just man. He was a good husband, father and citizen. Broad-minded, a deep thinker and well read he naturally took much interest in public affairs and was ever found working for that which would benefit his community and his adopted country. The writer knew him as a friend and no friend of his ever had occasion to doubt his loyalty. It can truthfully be said that the world is the better for his having lived.

"There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent trend;
He bears our best loved things away;
And then we call the 'dead.'

"And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits trend;
For all the boundless universe
Is life--there are no dead."

Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the friends who assisted us and sympathized with us in the death of husband and father. Mrs. H. R. Beck, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Christenson.

Source: Spencer Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; April 29, 1908.