DAAKE, Rueben Edward 1905-1999
DAAKE, SCHMIDT, HOLTHAUS
Posted By: Richard Daake (email)
Date: 10/4/2013 at 12:03:02
Rueben E. Daake, 94, a resident of Six Cedar Terrace South, Charles City, died Sunday morning, June 6, 1999, at the Mercy Health Center, East Campus, in Mason City.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the First Wesleyan Church in Charles City. The Rev. Paul Boostrom, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the Sunnyside Memory Gardens south of Charles City. There will be a flag presentation at the graveside by the Charles City Ceremonial Unit.
Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home from noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday, where the family will greet friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue Thrusday morning at the church an hour prior to the service.
Rueben Edward Daake was born march 28, 1905, to Adolph August and Martha Louise (Schmidt) Daake on the family homestead located eight miles west of Charles City. Rueben attended a county school for the lower grades, graduated from Rockford High School in 1925, and in 1932 began a portable oat hulling business.
In 1937, he married Bernice Holthaus of Colesburg. They made their first home in the parsonage of the Flood Creek Methodist Episcopal Church, located about four miles west of the Daake homestead. They lived there for several years serving as caretakers of the property and the cemetery until Rueben's induction into the Army during World War II.
After his honorable discharge in July of 1944, they moved into a new home at 805 Hildreth Street as neighbors to Rueben's parents. From that location Rueben continued and expanded his business. By 1949, he was operating three portable mills over a seven county area.
In 1958, he sold the milling business in order to take up farming east of Charles City. In order to help make ends meet for a growing family of three boys, he also worked at Salsbury Laboratories. After his wife's stroke in 1982, he lived for several years in the Cedar Terrace Apartments and most recently at the Salsbury Baptist Home.
Rueben is remembered by his family as a kind, generous and hard working man who loved his family, his church and God. From his childhood until 1942, he was active in the life of the Flood Creek Church. After returning from the war and moving to Charles City, he and Bernice joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, where they both served in many capacities as long as they had the ability to do so.
Living family members include three sons and their wives: Richard and Kathleen of Barltesville, Okla., Robert and Willow of Ankeny, and Donald and Barbara of Bourbonnais, Ill.; and a brother, Wilbur Daake of Charles City. there are seven grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Bernice; and two sisters: Mildred Kielsmeier and Elsie Marth; and a grandchild.
Source: The Charles City Press, Tuesday, June 8, 1999, p.2.
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