PECK, Sam 1889-1933

PECK

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 9/12/2015 at 09:41:53

Sam Peck Died at Oakdale Sanitarium Last Night

Sam Peck died at the Oakdale sanitarium about seven o'clock last night from tuberculosis. He was sent to Iowa City for treatment last winter. It was advised at Iowa City that he be taken to Oakdale. He was in the sanitarium there about two months. He did not know he was afflicted with tuberculosis when he was taken to Iowa City for examination.

L. D. Coffman and Leonard Mathren drove to Oakdale during the night and brought the body to Grundy Center. It is at the Coffman funeral home, from which place funeral services will be held Thursday.

Mr. Peck was 44 years old. He came here from New York 24 years ago and made his home here most of the time since. He was married. His wife died about twenty years ago. There is one daughter, Myrtle, who was an infant when her mother died. The daughter has been making her home in Omaha.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 18 May 1933, pg 1