DEADRICK, John 1902-1963

DEADRICK, JONES

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 2/22/2015 at 07:33:34

John Deadrick Dies Suddenly In C.F.

John Deadrick, who was born near Dike, died very suddenly at the Valley Bowling Lanes in Cedar Falls about 3:30 Saturday afternoon. He was stricken with a heart attack while engaged in games at the bowling alley and death followed very soon thereafter. He was 61 years old.

Services were in the Dahl funeral home in Cedar Falls Monday afternoon. Burial was in the Dike cemetery.

Mr. Deadrick was born on a farm near Dike, July 13, 1902, and he grew up there. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Deadrick. He attended Teachers College at Cedar Falls, and for a number of years taught in rural schools of Grundy county. The past 22 years he was employed by the Viking Company, Cedar Falls. He married Jessie Jones in Waterloo on July 11, 1925.

Surviving are his wife and a son John, RFD Cedar Falls; a daughter, Mrs. Harley Kaiser, of Cedar Falls; a brother, Adam, of Dike; and a sister, Mrs. John Russell, Huntington Park, California.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 2 January 1964, pg 8