WIK, Thomas 1954-1958

WIK, HAGEN, MEYER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/21/2011 at 18:07:39

Tommy Wik Rites
Wednesday at
Charles City

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the St. John Lutheran Church for Thomas Wik Jr., age 4.

He died at the Cedar Valley Hospital, here, on Sunday night after being taken there a half hour earlier.

Tommy was visiting his grandmother, Mrs. John Meyer, at the Gilbert Hotel. He swung on a refrigerator door in the kitchen and it toppled over on him.

The Reverend Werner A. Bischoff pastor, will officiate and burial will be in Sunnyside Memorial Gardens near Charles City with Hauser Funeral Home in charge.

Tommy was born in Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1954.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Milford Hagen, Charles City, with whom he was living; his father, Thomas Wik, stationed with the Air Force at Harlingen, Texas; his grandparents, Mrs. Meyer and Mr. and Mrs. Emory Field, who live north of Charles City; and a half-brother, Mark Hagen.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, October 7, 1958]