Fred Coker 1883-1941

COKER, WELTY, MCCLURE, YAROLUM

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Date: 4/23/2020 at 08:41:44

17 April 1941 - The Anamosa Journal

OXFORD JUNCTION--Last rites for Fred Coker, 58, were held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Hayden chapel.

Rev. W. A. Wogemuth conducted the services and a trio consisting of Mrs. G. E. Leffingwell, Mrs. Palmer Vaughn and Mrs. Joseph Havlik sang with Mrs. Ernest Schwab accompanying them at the piano. Pallbearers were Charles Von Munster, Roy Brink, Ray Stang, Otto Benhart, Lorenz Ahrendsn, and C. H. Jones. Burial was in the Mayflower cemetery with services at the grave by the members of the Zealous lodge A.F. and A.M. of which Mr. Coker was a past master.

Fred Coker died Thursday at 9 a.m. at his home southeast of Oxford Junction, where he had farmed for many years. Death followed a heart attack suffered as he was doing his morning chores.

He was born in Oxford Mills, Sept. 24, 1883, oldest son of George and Charlotte Coker, and was married in 1932 to Alice Welty. One son, by a former marriage, died at the age of ten. Surviving are his wife and mother: five brothers, Walter, Center Point, Harry, Marion, Roy, Ottumwa and Lacy and Earl, Oxford Mills; and two sisters, Mrs. Fred McClure and Mrs. George Yarolum, both Oxford Mills.