Charles Andrew Joeckel (1906)
GUILLIAMS, JOECKEL
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 9/4/2006 at 21:58:01
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 6, 1906CHARLES A. JOECKEL IS DEAD
Was Prominent in the Business and Social Affairs of this City. Interment at Old Home, Lake Mills, Wisconsin.
Charles Joeckel, junior partner of the clothing firm of Joeckel Bros., died on last Sunday, September 2nd, after an illness of two and one-half years.
In the early spring of 1904 Mr. Joeckel, who had the active management of the firm's business at this place, began to fail in health and upon the advice of a physician quit work in hopes of recuperating his health, which showed symptons of a nervous break down. The advice was heeded but it was too late and a life of unusual promise was cut off. His health both in mind and body was completely wrecked and despite the aid of the best medical treatment that modern science affords, he grew steadily worse.
For a year and a half he was cared for at a private sanitarium at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, then at Kansas City and again at Lake Geneva, but all to no avail and he was finally given the care of the state institution at Clarinda, Iowa, where he died on last Sunday. His remains were taken back to Lake Mills, his former home for burial.
He is survived by his mother, five brothers, two sisters, his wife and little daughter, Mary.
He was a young man of marked ability in the business world, was liked by every one and his sickness and death have evoked on all hands that genuine expression of sympathy for the bereft that proves the universal brotherhood of man.
__________________________________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, September 7, 1906
Page 1, Column 4CHARLES JOECKEL DEAD
After an illness of two years, Charles Joeckel, once a prominent business man of Winterset and a member of the firm of Joeckel Bros., died Sunday at Clarinda. On Sunday evening the sad intelligence was received in the city announcing his death and his brother, Henry Joeckel, left early Monday morning via Peru for that place.
Charles Joeckel was born at Lake, Mills, Wisconsin; June 24, 1865. He came to Winterset in 1894 and with his brother started the clothing house on the south side under the name of Joeckel Bros. He was married in 1900 to Miss Maude Guilliams, who with their little daughter, survive him.
Two years ago in March he was taken ill with nervous prostration, resulting from over work. He was taken to a sanitarium at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, but received no relief. After staying awhile at the Guilliams home near St. Charles, he was placed under the care of a specialist in nervous diseases in Kansas City, but no hope was held out for his recovery. He was finally placed in a hospital at Clarinda, where his death took place Sunday. The body was taken to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, for interment, accompanied by his wife and daughter and Henry Joeckel.
Charles Joeckel was one of the brightest young business men of the city and together with his brother he had built up one of the best clothing houses in Southern Iowa. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias order of Winterset.
_______________________Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from gravestone.
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