Carl Wicks, 1908-1990

WICKS

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/20/2009 at 18:29:17

GRAETTINGER (IOWA)- Services for Carl Wicks, 82, will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran Church, Graettinger, with Pastor Ronald Barnett officiating. Interment will be in Valley View Cemetery, Graettinger. He died Monday, Nov. 26, 1990 at Palo Alto County Hospital at Emmetsburg. Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Graettinger from 3 - 9 p.m. Wednesday.

He was born April 14, 1908 at Estherville, the son of Ole and Hilda (Hansen) Wicks and attended rural Graettinger School. On Feb. 18, 1945 he married Nellie T. Nielsen at Jackson, Minn. He lived and farmed on the same farm northeast of Graettinger for 79 years. He was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church at Graettinger.

Survivors include one son Carl and two daughters Karen and Carol Wicks, Graettinger; two grandchildren and one great-grandson; one brother-in-law, Harold Hansen, Dickens and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Mae Wicks, Fort Dodge.

He was preceded in death by his wife on April 20, 1990; one brother and one sister.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; November 28, 1990.