Ernest Emil Beck, 1897-1914

BECK, SONIUS, VAN SCOVENDYK, COFFMAN

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/7/2014 at 11:29:52

Ernest Emil Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Beck of Riverton township passed away Monday morning at 7:20 o'clock, Sept. 7, 1914, after two weeks of much suffering of a complication of diseases the final being pneumonia.

Ernest was born Dec. 19, 1897, in Summit township, Clay county, Iowa, and at the time of his death was sixteen years, eight months and nineteen days. Previous to his sickness he always seemed to be in in the best of health, strong and ever ready to do what was to be done, and just to be taken in the prime of life, we can't always understand. His is the first death in the family of his parents, five brothers and five sisters, all of whom were at his bedside in his last illness and when the end came. His brothers and sisters are as follows: Mrs. Marie Sonius, Everly, Iowa; Mrs. Augusta Van Scovendyk, Hope, Idaho; George Beck, Spencer, Iowa; Mrs. Etta Coffman, Lacon, Illinois; Fred, Henry, Guston, Louis, Edith and Florence at home. Funeral services were held at one o'clock from the house, Sept. 9, 1914, Rev. E. Grummer of the German Lutheran church officiating. The services were in the English language, burial in Spencer cemetery.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; September 16, 1914.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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