CUNNINGHAM, Carl J 1895-1958

CUNNINGHAM, BLAKE

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Date: 5/16/2014 at 12:58:38

Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa September 29, 1958

Carl Cunningham Dies at Waukon; Rites Wednesday

ROCKFORD - Carl Cunningham, 62, died Sunday at Waukon. He was born Nov. 5, 1895 in Dougherty. He was married Feb. 5, 1919, to Minnie Blake at Dougherty.

Cunningham operated the creamery here for eight years and was manager of the hemp plant here during the war years. He was field man for the Waukon creamery at the time of his death.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Carlyle, Des Moines and R. E. Cunningham, Cedar Falls; four grandchildren and his mother, Susan Cunningham, Dougherty.

The Rosary will be recited at Weaver Funeral Home here Tuesday at 8 p.m. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Holy Name Catholic Church here. The Rev. Fr. G.E. Lattner will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery with military rites at the graveside.
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Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa Tuesday, September 30, 1958

NORTHEAST IOWA DEATHS

ROCKFORD - Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Weaver Funeral home here, and funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Holy Name church here for Carl Cunningham, 62, a resident of Rockford from 1934 to about 1945, who died Sunday at Waukon, where he had been a fieldman for the Waukon creamery for the past eight years; burial in Riverside cemetery here; American Legion will conduct military rites; manager of the Rockford creamery from 1934 to the beginning of World war II. During the war he managed the hemp plant at Rockford. From about 1945 to 1950 he managed creameries in Mason City, Emmetsburg and Osage.