Charles A. Lonnecker (1966)

LONNECKER, AKIN, DELETTE, SMITH

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 9/11/2006 at 18:10:53

Winterset Madisonian
1966

C. A. LONNECKER RITES HELD HERE

Retired Winterset Barber Died in California On Feb. 2

Charles A. Lonnecker of Winterset, a well-known resident of Madison county for most of his life, died Wednesday, Feb. 2 in a hospital at San Diego, Calif., where he had been spending the winter at the home of his son, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lonnecker.

Mr. Lonnecker was 83 years of age at his death. He had received a fractured hip in a fall at the home of his son the first of January, and had been a hospital patient since that time.

He was born Jan. 27, 1883, in Iowa, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lonnecker. His childhood was spent in Jefferson township, but he moved to southern Iowa early in life, where he learned the barber trade.

He worked as a barber in Shannon City as a young man, but moved to Winterset in 1907, and actively followed that trade for 56 years, before retiring in 1963. During those years he operated barber shops at several locations in Winterset.

He was married in 1907 to Ona Akin of Jefferson township. Her death occurred last August.

Surviving are two sons, Glen Lonnecker of San Diego and Leon Lonnecker of Des Moines; a daughter, Mrs. Lois Delette of Tulsa, Okla.; eight grandchildren; five great grandchildren; two brothers, Clarence Lonnecker of Winterset and George Lonnecker of Afton; and a sister, Mrs. Inez Smith of Creston.

Funeral services were held Saturday from St. Joseph's Catholic church at Winterset with Rosary the preceding evening at the Wilson Funeral home here. Msgr. John W. Higgins, pastor of St. Joseph's church, celebrated the funeral Mass. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.