Frank Doud 1857-1924

DOUD, LANG, PHALEN, CURLEY, DEVLIN, O’BRIEN, BOLAND, LANE, LAVERY, WELCH

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 12/14/2016 at 00:04:50

Cascade Pioneer, March 13, 1924, page 1, column 7

VETERAN MAIL MAN DIES

Frank Doud Answers Final Summons After Brief Illness

After an illness of two or more weeks, Frank Doud died at his home in West Cascade at 9:30 o’clock Friday night, March 7th. His condition had been considered critical for more than a week and those of his children living elsewhere were summoned to his bedside. Starting with a bad cold, complications set in and he was unable to rally from the prostration.

Mr. Doud was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Doud, pioneer settlers of Washington township, Jones county, Iowa, and deceased was born on the old homestead in that township, October 22, 1857. He grew to manhood upon the farm, and on April 12, 1882, he was married to Miss Mary Lang, and to their union the following children were born, John, Henry, James and Ann, living in Cascade; J. L. Doud, of Oyens, Ia.; Mrs. Vincent Phalen, of Rockford, Ill.; and Bernard Doud, of Peoria, Ill., all of whom were present at the bedside of their parent.

Mr. Doud came to Cascade in 1891 and did teaming and other work for a number of years. On Nov. 15, 1902, he entered the government service as a rural mail carrier out of the Cascade post office and for over twenty-one years was a faithful official in that often arduous service, out in all kinds of weather, over rough and snowbound roads, carrying the mail to the farming districts of his route. It is probable that on one of the recent trips, on a particularly stormy day, he contracted the severe cold, which eventually proved fatal. He was an honest, upright citizen, and a consistent Catholic, and died fortified by the sacraments of his religion. Mr. Doud’s wife died July 27, 1913, and besides his children, previously mentioned, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary O’Shea and Miss Anna Doud, of Cascade.

The funeral services were held at St. Martin’s church Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock and were conducted by Rev. Dean Roche and were largely attended by the friends of the deceased and family.

The casket was borne by George Rogers, B. G. Curley, J. C. Devlin, John O’Brien, J. P. Lane and John T. Boland.

Those from out of town who attended the funeral were John Lavery, of Monticello and Miss Eloise Welch, of Cedar Rapids.

Compliments of Joseph Cahill