John Michael Volk (1939)
BALDHEIMER, CASKEY, DENTON, NOEL, PETERS, VOLK
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:57
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 9, 1939
Page 7, Columns 1 & 2OBITUARY – J. M. Volk
John Michael Volk, youngest of three children, was born May 27, 1864 at Elsberg, Wurtemberg, Germany, and died at his home near Orient, Feb. 23, 1939 at the age of 74 years 8 months and 26 days.
In March 1880, when but 16 years of age after finishing the Theological Seminary, he came to America for a year of travel before entering the University of Heidelberg to prepare himself for the Lutheran ministry. He did not return to Germany and has lived in Adair and Madison counties since that time, with the exception of eight years which he spent in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
He was united in marriage to Bertha Wilson Caskey, Nov. 27, 1895, to this union were born four children, an infant preceding him in death. He joined the Methodist church in 1896 and in his earlier years took an active part in church work, as well as in the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodman lodges.
He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Maude S. and Nell A. of Missoula, Mont.; one son, John K. of Sioux City; one step-daughter, Mrs. D. V. Denton of Greenfield; one sister, Mrs. Baldheimer of Wurtemberg, Germany; two granddaughters, Mrs. Joseph Noel of Panora and Mrs. Raymond Peters of Greenfield; one grandson, Rex Denton of Greenfield; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted at the Hill of Zion church, Monday afternoon, Feb. 27, with Rev. A. R. Weed officiating. Burial was made in the Hill of Zion cemetery. Pallbearers were Christ Haif, Ernest Hardin, Glen Crow, John Adams, J. W. Cunningham and Jesse Courier.
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