Rev. Isaac E. Linkletter (1950)

CASELY, LINKLETTER, STAMY

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 9/10/2006 at 18:05:03

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 9, 1950

RITES HELD FOR REV. LINKLETTER

Prominent Winterset Pastor Died Suddenly While on Vacation

Funeral services were held today for Rev. I. E. Linkletter, 60, pastor of the Winterset Christian church, and president of the local Ministerial society, following his death early Sunday morning, Aug. 6 from a heart attack. He had held the local pastorate for two years.

Rev. and Mrs. Linkletter and their daughter Ethel were vacationing in South Dakota at the time of his death. They had left Winterset early last week and were on their way to Yellowstone park when Rev. Linkletter became ill Saturday morning in Rapid City, S.D. The family then decided to return home. They were spending Saturday night in Sioux Fall, S.D. when Mr. Linkletter became much worse. He died early in the morning before he could be taken to a hospital.

Services were at 10 o'clock this morning in the Christian church, with Rev. Loren Lair, state secretary of the Churches of Christ officiating. A tribute to Rev. Linkletter was given by members of the Winterset Ministerial association who expressed their appreciation for the cooperation the churches have experienced while Rev. Linkletter has been president of the Ministerial association.

Short burial services at the graveside in Linnwood cemetery in Cedar Rapids are being held there at four o'clock this afternoon.

Linkletter was a native of Canada having been born Dec. 16, 1889 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island; he attended the rural schools there and came to the United States where he attended Johnson Bible college in Tennessee. He came to Iowa in 1913 to attend Drake university and was graduated from that school in 1917. On June 26, 1917 he was married to Miss Edna Stamy in Cedar Rapids.

While in Cedar Rapids, the Rev. Mr. Linkletter was twice elected president of the Ministerial association and in 1940 he was president of the state convention of the Churches of Christ. He was also active in the Y.M.C.A. and other organizations.

He was a member of the Winterset Rotary club, the Masonic lodge, and chairman of the board of the Ramsey Memorial home in Des Moines.

He is survived by his wife, and their three children; Montague of Iowa City, who is to receive his M.A. degree Wednesday night at the University; John, who is employed by the Newton Daily News and Ethel of Des Moines, who is employed as a field director of the Girl Scouts. He also leaves a brother, Frank and a sister, Mrs. Leonard Casely of Prince Edward Island and a grandson, John of Iowa City, who is less than a month of age and whom he had seen only once.

After graduation he preached in rural Iowa churches and then accepted a pastorate in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and their three children were born in Winnipeg. He then preached for three years in Winger, Canada, and in 1928 was called to his wife's home church, the Second Christian church in Cedar Rapids. He remained there for 20 years before coming to Winterset in the summer of 1948.
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Coordinator's note: First name taken from gravestone.

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