Jonas Schrack

SCHRACK, GEYER, PETTIT, KING, DAMON

Posted By: Dorothy (email)
Date: 11/26/2008 at 13:24:02

Jonas Schrack died at two o'clock Sunday morning
after an illness of only a few days. He was about 72
years of age and is a man well known in Oelwein and
vicinity, being held in highest esteem. A short service
will be held at the home in Oelwein Tuesday afternoon
at one o'clock and the remains will then be take to
his old home at Fairbank when at two o'clock services
will be held. The funeral will be under the direction of
the Masonic lodge of Fairbank in which the deceased
retained his membership.

ODR - 6 Apr 1925

Jonas Schrack was the youngest of nine children born
to John and Betsy Schrack.
The family were residents of Pennsylvania removing
later to Illinois near the city of Freeport where Mr.
Schrack was born.
His parents moved to Iowa in 1854 and settled on a
government claim in Black Hawk County six miles
North of Dunkerton where their son Jonas grew to
manhood, with the exception of two years which he
spent in Missouri.
He was married in 1875 to Nellia Geyer whose death
occurred a short time later leaving a tiny baby girl
who was taken from him at the age of eleven months.
On March 20, 1880 he was united in marriage with
Frances Pettit of Waterloo and they made their home
on the old homestead until 1891 when they moved to
a farm three miles east of Fairbank. In 1906 the
family moved into Fairbank. Four years ago Mr. and
Mrs. Schrack moved to Oelwein where Mr. Schrack has
been employed in the Chicago Great Western Railway
shops. Last Friday Mr. Schrack attended to his duties
at the shops and seemed in his usual health. He spent
the evening in the pleasant companionship of his wife
and family but shortly after retiring was stricken with
a severe pain in his heart. The physician was
summoned immediately but from the start gave no
hope of his recovery. He suffered great pain for 24
hours and death came to his relief at 2 o'clock Sunday
morning April 5th. Mr. Schrack united with the
Baptist Church in Fairbank in 1900 where he remained
a conscientious member till his death.
Mr. Schrack leaves to mourn his departiure into the
great beyond his beloved companion and wife, five
children, Mrs. Maude King, Arthur J., Harry L.. Mrs.
Mabel Damon of Oelwein and Earl E. of Salt Lake City.

Oelwein Daily Register - 9 April 1925