Lydia Amanda Keck

KECK, FIELMAN, HOFFMAN, ELLIOTT, ALLEN

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Date: 1/10/2019 at 21:44:58

Wapello Republican, October 17, 1935, page 1

Mrs. Lydia Amanda (Fielman) Keck, born at Grandview, Iowa, Aug., 6th, 1872, daughter of Frederick and Anna Marie (Hoffman) Fielman died at the Burlington hospital at 2 a.m, October 16, 1935, age 63 years, 2 months, and 10 days. She was married to John G. Keck October 24, 1895. The children are, one son, Kenneth F. Keck of New York City and one daughter, Mrs. Lola F. Elliott of Wapello.

Funeral from the residence at 2 p.m. Friday, Rev. T. Warren, officiating. Interment in the Wapello cemetery.

Mrs. Keck's mother passed away when she was 3 years of age, her father in 1910.

She was a member of the Methodist church since she was 11 years of age, worked with the Epworth League and Philathea class in past years. She was a past president of the Ladies Aid and of the Home Missionary society, a charter member of the Eastern Star, a member of the J. A. O. club, and the Tarry Awhile club, also member of the Legion Auxiliary, Daughters of Veterans and Royal Neighbors.

There is also left to mourn her loss, beside the husband and children, Mrs. Kenneth F. Keck and two children, John III and Robert of New York City, Mrs. Josie Fielman, wife of a brother Frank, deceased; one brother, W. E. Fielman and two daughters, Christine and Anita of Monmouth, Ill., one sister, Mrs. H. O. Allen, Dr. H. O. Allen and daughter, Wilma of Idaho Springs, Ohio; John H. Elliott, husband of Lola (Keck) and their six children, viz. Mildred, Ronald, Kenneth, Gordon, Ralph and Lola, and many friends.