Edward Joseph "Ed" Walsh 1877-1922

WALSH, WALCH, FRALEY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 8/4/2011 at 00:22:26

Ed Walch [Walsh] is very sick at the Birney hospital in Estherville. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, April 26, 1922)

Death has again entered our midst and broken another family circle. How often we are reminded time is short and we at any moment may be called to our reward. Mr. Walch [Walsh] was sick two weeks and all that medical skill and loving hands could do was of no avail. He had done as many do had tried to do his work when he should have been under a doctor’s care. It is hard for an ambitious man as he was to rest.

Ed Walch was born at Genoa, Livingston County, Ill. in 1876 [per WWI draft record, August 22, 1877, per cemetery records 1874] and passed away Tuesday morning May 2nd 1922 at the Birney hospital on Estherville where he had undergone an operation on April 20th. His condition was such that the doctors gave the relatives no hopes from the first. Mr. Walch and family moved here from Clopper, Ill. about six years ago and bought a farm west of town where they have since resided. He was a faithful member of the Catholic church at Estherville. Mr. Walch was a very pleasant man, a kind husband and father a good husband and father and a good neighbor. One commendable trait was the way he treated his daughters. If they wished to go to a social gathering he was always ready to accompany them.

A large crowd from here attended the funeral Thursday morning held at the Catholic Church at Estherville and the body was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery there. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, two daughters and four sons all at home. His mother, Mrs. Walch of Piper City, Ill., one sister, Mrs. John Schuller of Viola, N.D. four brothers two at Piper City, one at Sherry, Ill. and Thomas of Superior, Iowa.

The entire community join with us in extending sympathy to the bereaved relatives. Those from away to attend the funeral were: his mother, Mrs. Walch, William Walch a brother, Theo Fraley a brother-in-law all of Piper City, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. John Saxon of Jeffers, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Saxon of Windom, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. John Hemphill and Mr. and Mrs. John Heines of Spencer, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Winthell and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley of Jackson, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Rob Helmer and family of Armstrong. Mrs. Fraley, mother of Mrs. Walch of Sherry, Wis. and Anthony Walch of Sherry, Wis. brother of the deceased who had been at Mr. Welch’s bedside were unable to remain to the funeral. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, May 10, 1922)