Edwin Klenk (1899 - 1978)

KLENK, MCCRACKEN, YOUNG, CLARK, BRANT

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 8/7/2023 at 16:37:49

Edwin Klenk, 79, a former Iowa City resident, died Monday at his home in Postville, after a sudden illness.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in the George L. Gay Funeral Home, where visitation begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Oxford Masonic Lodge services will be 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

He was born Feb. 10, 1899, in Oxford, a son of John and Anna (Beck) Klenk. He was a retired auto mechanic and worked for many years at Nall Motors where he was known as “Dutch”.

He married Edith McCracken, Jan. 1, 1930, in Iowa City. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City and Canopy Lodge AF & AM in Oxford.

He is survived by one son, Ed, of Postville; two daughters, Mrs. James (Betty) Clark of Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Dennis (Nancy) Young of San Antonio, Texas, nine grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Geneva Brant of Tucson, Ariz.

He was preceded in death by his wife. (Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, 15 Aug 1978, Tue., pg. 2)