Albert H. Decker (1957)

DECKER, CORNELL, MCEWEN, HAYES

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/28/2007 at 09:42:53

Winterset Madisonian - October 9, 1957
Winterset, Iowa

BERT DECKER DIES IN DES MOINES

Albert H. Decker, a former resident of Madison county, died at a Des Moines hospital Thursday, Oct. 3. He had been ill with cancer for eight months.

Mr. Decker was 67 years of age. He was born June 6, 1890, at Stuart, a son of Elmer and Jennie Cornell Decker. He graduated from Guthrie Center high school and attended Drake university in Des Moines. Most of his active life was spent as a livestock herdsman, farm manager and in selling livestock feeds. From 1918 to 1930 he was herdsman for the Kelleher Polled Hereford herd in Madison county. His last employment was as a feed salesman for Frey Hatchery in Winterset.

Survivors include his wife, Effie; four sons, Alton of Thayer, Lloyd of Modesto, Calif., Russell of Bowling Green, O., and Wayne of Columbia, Mo.; a daughter, Mrs. Walter McEwen of Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Bessie Hayes of Guthrie Center; and 14 grandchildren.