COCKING, Cecil L. 1917-1950

COCKING, ANDERSON, ALLEN, NIXON, BALLANTYNE

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Date: 10/16/2011 at 14:09:34

Funeral services were held last Saturday afternoon at the Gill Funeral home in Manchester for Cecil L. Cocking, 32, who passed away Wednesday morning at University Hospital in Iowa City after five days of illness.

He was stricken with polio and taken to the hospital Monday morning where he was immediately placed in an iron lung. He was paralyzed completely and the severity of the attack was more than he could survive.

Cecil L. Cocking was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Louis Cocking of Manchester. He was born December 31, 1917 and raised on the parental farm near Manchester. On May 26, 1941 he married Mabel Anderson of Fort Dodge. For five years they farmed near Manchester. They then moved to Florence, South Carolina where they lived for 2½ years. Last September they purchased the late W. L. Meyer farm southeast of Castalia where they have been farming since.

He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife Mabel and three children, John, 7, Betty, 6, and Richard, 4; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Louis Cocking of Manchester, a brother, Dr. R. M. Cocking of Monona, and a sister Mrs. E. M. Allen of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The funeral service was in charge of Mr. C. E. Anderson of Fort Dodge. Mrs. Ruth Nixon and Mrs. Florence Ballantyne, sisters of Mrs. Mabel Cocking, played the organ and violin. Mrs. Ballantyne sang two solos much loved by Cecil, "Great is Thy Faithfulness" and "Beyond the Sunset." Mr. Nixon and Mrs. Ballantyne also sang, "Jesus Lover of My Soul."

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, hand dated Aug. 30, 1950, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.