VERMILYA, Fred 1866-1943
VERMILYA
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/9/2015 at 20:53:17
CHARLES CITY MAN
DIES WHILE HUNTING
EAST OF OSAGEFred Vermilya, 77, Charles City business man for 25 years, died of a heart attack last Thursday while pheasant hunting with four other Charles City business men in a field six and a half miles southeast of Osage.
Dr. G. E. Krepelka, Mitchell county coroner, pronounced his death due to a heart attack.
Mr. Vermilya, in company with George H. Bucknam, E.G. Brown, R.W. Anders and George Smith, had gone hunting the opening morning and had walked across one field when Mr. Vermilya stumbled and fell. He was dead in a few minutes.
According to a Charles City friend, he had suffered with heart disease for a long time. One exceedingly hot dry day last summer this friend passed by the Vermilya home and found the aged man mowing a lawn. When a suggestion was offered that he wait for cooler weather to complete the job, Mr. Vermilya remarked that he knew he was going to go "just like that" some day, and when the time came he hoped he was doing something he liked rather than pushing a lawn mower. He said that he had decided to go on just as he always had with his work and recreation, when told he had heart disease, rather than to worry about it.
He was doing the one thing he loved best -- hunting -- when he was called.
Source: Mitchell County Press-News, 4 NOV 1943
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------See Findagrave memorial for Fred Vermilya, with photo of his tombstone. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.
Findagrave Memorial with tombstone photo
Floyd Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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