Grandma Adicks

ADICKS, HACKMAN, PETERS, CHRISTOPHER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 4/23/2019 at 13:09:36

19 September 1916 - The Clinton Advertiser
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Bellevue, Ia., Sept. 19--The death of Grandma Adicks after many weeks of weary and terrible suffering occurred at the home of her son Fred on Fourth street Tuesday at 11 o'clock. She had been lovingly cared for and all that medical skill could do was done, but the Father said "Thy work is done, and I have need of three," and she went gladly. Mrs. Adicks was born, reared and married in Germany, coming with her husband and family to America ?5 years ago. They settled near Gordon's Ferry, where the husband died and where her son Fred cared for her and the younger children until they grew up and he moved to Bellevue eight years ago, and where she continued to make her home, being 77 years of age. She was a faithful member of the Lutheran church all her life, joining at St. Donatus until they moved here, where they became affiliated with St. John's Lutheran. The pastor, Rev. Mutchman, was a faithful visitor and comforter at her bedside, and conducted the last services at the home on Friday morning at 9:30 after which the body was borne to the church at St. Donatus, where services were held and the remains laid to rest in the family lot. She leaves to mourn her death two sons, Fred of Bellevue and Will of Dubuque, and three daughters, Mrs. Ibic Hackman of St. Donatus, Mrs. J. Peters of Chicago and Mrs. Christopher of New York, all being present at the funeral except the one in New York. An unusual occurrence was the christening of the little two weeks' old grandson on the day of the funeral.