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Charles C. Becks

BECKS, JACKSON

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Date: 12/16/2017 at 16:31:08

The Marion Sentinel Thursday April 10, 1913
Obituary of Chas. C. Beck[sic]
The subject of this sketch was born in Marion, Feb. 2, 1872, and died April 4, 1913, aged 41 years, 2 months and 2 days. At the age of 15 he began his career in the drug business, in which he remained continuously up to the day of his death. In 1891 he graduated with honor from the Iowa City School of Pharmacy. All, or nearly all his life has been spent in the city of his birth, where he grew to manhood amid such environments as were not only congenial to him, but amid which his life was so fashioned and moulded as to bring to him the friendships which, once assimilated with his own, were seldom, if ever, broken or dismembered.
The writer speaks from personal knowledge as one who has known him intimately during the entire period of his life, in paying him lovingly and unstintedly the tribute begotten by long years of contact with those who are embraced within the circles of that friendship, of being one who, in obedience to the mandate of holy writ, "let not his right hand know what his left had did." His heart was never calloused by greed, nor was it ever deaf to the appeals of those who were in need of the assistance of a helping hand. His deeds of charity were not only many, but were performed without either stint or ostentation. He was one whose religion was of deeds and not of words, and whatever the nature of his faults or the character of his imperfection, all were forgotten at his bier, where the breath of the roses mingled with the incense of his unselfish and unforgotten deeds. His passing cannot but case a shadow over the pathway of the many who have known him as the idealism of friendship and the incarnation of those virtues which are its logical and inevitable out growth. Unlike the many, he did not wait until death claimed those whom he loved, but gave them the roses of his friendship here and now and the testimony born of these unselfish bestowals constitute a monument to his memory more enduring than granite or marble, impervious to the ravages of time and immune from "the destruction which wasteth at noonday."
His funeral was held Monday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A.J. Joss, on south ninth street, and was attended by a large concourse of those whose sympathies and condolences were heartfelt and genuine.
The discourse was by Rev. Bishop, and his remarks were tinged with the feeling engendered by a common sorrow. He was a life member of the Order of Elks, which order had charge of the final obsequies at the grave, in which, amid the impressive ceremony of that order and the stillness of the solem[sic] hour, broken only by the anthem of the birds, which hovered near his final resting place, was laid to rest all that was mortal of one who, to know, was to love and admire.
The following were the pall bearers--Ed SIgfred, F.A. Shumack, F.A.H. Greulich, Charles E. Mitchell, Wm. Coenon and E.E. Hollingworth.

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