Merl Knight, 6 Mar. 1889 – 26 Sept. 1944

KNIGHT, KEEFE, BROGMUS, GORMAN

Posted By: Susan Rezek (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 23:02:05

The Freeman Journal, Wed., September 27, 1944, Webster City, Hamilton Co., Iowa:

"MERL KNIGHT DIED TUESDAY -- Funeral Rites on Friday for Widely Known W. C. Barber.”

“Merl W. Knight, 55, widely known resident of Webster City, died Tuesday evening at Mercy hospital in Fort Dodge where he had been a patient the past two weeks. Death was caused by complications following an operation. He had been in poor health for several years, but had been able to keep up his work until very recently.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 9:30 a. m., at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church, with the Rev. Father Gorman officiating. Burial in the Catholic cemetery; Foster's [funeral home] in charge. The rosary will be said at 8:30 Thursday evening at the funeral home.

Son of Willis and Viola Knight, Merl Willis Knight was born March 6, 1889, at Manchester, Iowa. When he was a small lad, the family moved to a farm near Alta and he was educated in the schools there.

As a young man, he entered the barbering trade and had since been engaged in that work. He was married Oct. 1, 1912, to Josephine Keefe, at Fulton, Ill.

They came to Ft. Dodge, making their home there until 1917, when they moved to Storm Lake [Iowa]. In 1922 they came to Webster City and he continued his work here.

Mr. Knight was preceded in death by his parents. Surviving are his wife and three sons, Willis of this city, Allan, at the U. S. N. A. T. T. C. in Norman, Okla., and Charles, also of this city. There are five grandchildren, Diane and Jeffrey, Willis' children; Barry and Raymond, sons of Allan; and Sally, daughter of Charles.

Also surviving is a twin brother, Melvin, of Omaha [Nebraska], and a sister, Mrs. R. C. [Maud] Brodmus [sic, Brogmus] of Downer's Grove, Ill, and several nieces and nephews.

Since his arrival in Webster City, Mr. Knight had made many close friends and acquaintances. All those who came to know him through personal or business contacts respected him as a worker of high standing in his particular profession."