DUKE, Charles

DUKE, HENSTORF, PEASE, ROBERTS, HERRIMAN, WARNER

Posted By: Susan Glasgo (email)
Date: 1/24/2004 at 00:56:07

Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, IA
Tuesday, March 14, 1961:

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES DUKE HELD AT FARRAGUT

Farragut - Funeral services for Charles H. Duke were held Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Campbell Funeral Home.

He was born October 7, 1879, and died March 12 at the Veterans Hospital in Omaha, where he had been for four months. He enlisted and served in World War I.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. John Duke of Osceola, Missouri, he was one of six children.

He came to the Farragut community and worked as a farm hand, hunted and trapped. He stayed with Homer Carl, his third cousin, until he purchased a home in Farragut.

He united with the Congregational Church in 1901. Mr. Duke was preceded in death by his immediate family.

Keith Bickett sang two selections accompanied by Mrs. Charles Herriman.

Casket bearers were Harold Penwell, R. H. Henstorf, Ralph Pease, Delbert Roberts, Charles Herriman and Enos Warner.

Interment was in Farragut Cemetery, with the Sidney Legion Post giving the military graveside rites.