Fred Allen Read (1931)

READ, BURRUS, HOLLINGSHEAD, HAGEMEISTER, FRENCH, KELLEY, BARDRICK

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 10/20/2006 at 15:41:33

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 27, 1931 – page 1

Death of Fred Read

From Pawnee City, Nebraska, comes the following account of the death of Fred A. Read, who used to live in this vicinity.

Fred Allen Read was born near Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, on March 15, 1878 and died on August 20, 1931, at the age of 53 years and 5 months.

He was the sixth child of a large family, having three brothers and five sisters, all of whom survive.

He was reared and educated in the county of his birth, and at an early age he joined the Methodist church. He was united in marriage on March 29, 1899 to Gertrude Burrus of Winterset, Iowa.

To this union were born five children, Lawrence Burrus, who died in infancy, Mrs. Corrie Hollingshead of Pawnee City, Mrs. Lee Hagemeister of Potter, Nebraska; Mrs. Walter French of Burbank, California; and Mrs. Howard Kelley of Grand Island, Nebraska.

On account of the distance, one daughter, Mrs. French was unable to come home. Of the brothers and sisters, Mrs. G. A. Bardrick of Winterset, Iowa, and Arch E. Read of Des Moines, Iowa, were able to be present.

Fred Read was a loving husband and father devoted to his family and proud of the fact that he could see his four splendid daughters educated and established in happy homes of their own.

Besides his wife and four daughters he is also survived by three grandchildren.

Having been in the mercantile business for many years, he took an active part in community life and his genial nature won him many friends.

He was a hard worker and too close application to responsibility soon commenced to tell on an otherwise rugged physique.

Funeral services were held at the home Saturday afternoon, August 22nd, and burial was in the Pawnee City cemetery.