RECKARD, Flora Ruth "Flo" 1898-1940

RECKARD, HILL, DE BUHR

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 3/21/2015 at 11:57:24

Flora Ruth (Hill) Reckard – October 1898 – April 14, 1940

MRS. RECKARD IS FOUND DEAD
NORA SPRINGS WOMAN BELIEVED VICTIM OF SUICIDE IN CEMETERY

Nora Springs -- Mrs. Steve Reckard, 45, was found dead in a car in Rock Grove Cemetery Monday morning, apparently a suicide victim.

Mrs. Reckard had evidently driven to the cemetery Sunday night, taken a vacuum cleaner hose and hooked it from the exhaust pipe into the window of the car. She had been in ill health for the past year. The body was found by Harold Noah, sexton.

Surviving are her sons, Gale and Don, and her husband Steve, who is employed in Mason City.

The Martin and Sheckler Funeral Home has charge of funeral arrangements.

Mason City Globe Gazette Monday April 15, 1940
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PRIVATE RITES FOR WOMAN 41
BURIAL IS MADE IN ROCK GROVE CEMETERY FOR MRS. RECKARD

Nora Springs -- A private funeral was held for Mrs. Steven Reckard, 41, at the Martin Sheckler Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Robert Davies officiating. Burial was in Rock Grove cemetery.

She taught school at Webster City until her marriage March 16, 1916, at Mason City.

She has lived all of her married life in Nora Springs, excepting part of the first year at Duncombe.

She is survived by her husband, Steven Reckard, two sons, Donald Reckard of Nora Springs and Gale, a high school student at home, by two brothers, Milton Hill of Minneapolis, Minnesota and George of Washington, one sister Mrs. Herman De Buhr of Charles City, and by one grandchild.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday April 18, 1940

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NOTE: Steve and Flora were found in the 1940 census, living in Nora Springs, Iowa. Also listed with them was their son Gale. On census sheet number 12A.