DEADRICK, Ethel M. 1897-1956

DEADRICK, CLUTE

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/13/2019 at 18:27:38

Mrs. A. F. Deadrick Died Suddenly in Sartori Hospital

Mrs. A. F. Deadrick died very suddenly and unexpectedly in the Sartori hospital, Cedar Falls, shortly after noon last Wednesday. Death resulted from a ruptured blood vessel that leaves the heart. She was taken to the hospital three days before her death and prior to that time she appeared to be in her usual health.

News of her sudden death came as a shock to the people of this community, very few of them who knew that she was in the hospital. There are few people in this community who were better known than Mrs. Deadrick, and few also who were held in so high esteem. She had a very useful and busy life and her death is a severe loss to the community. All of the many sorrowing friends are united in their sympathy for the grief stricken husband and other members of the Deadrick family.

Services Sunday
Last rites for Mrs. Deadrick were at the Methodist church in Dike at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. Rev. L. J. Runion officiated at the service. Burial was in the Elmwood cemetery at Dike.

Obituary
Mrs. A. F. Deadrick, nee Ethel May Clute, was born Jan. 25, 1897, at Edgewood, Iowa, the only daughter of R. C. and Florence Clute. The family moved to Waterloo when she was very small and where she grew up and received her education. She graduated from West Waterloo high school and Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, and also attended Gates Business college in Waterloo. For several years she taught school in Black Hawk and Grundy counties.

On June 30, 1924, she was married to A. F. Deadrick of Dike at the Little Brown Church at Nashua. The couple made their home in Dike where Mr. Deadrick was former postmaster and now is employed by the town, and which has been their home since.

She was a member of the Dike Methodist church and the American Legion Auxiliary. She had been correspondent for The Grundy Register since 1927 and for the Waterloo Daily Courier since February 1946.

She is survived by her husband, two brothers, Stuart B. Clute of Devils Lake, North Dakota, and Charles C. Clute of Waterloo. Her parents and two brothers preceded her in death.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 28 June 1956, pg 16