LEWIS ROQUET 1846-1943

ROQUET, YEOMAN, AXTELL, HOCKETT, ROBBINS

Posted By: Dana Roquet (email)
Date: 10/18/2010 at 09:17:01

Oldest Resident
Dies, Age of 97

Fremont Gazette
Nov 25, 1943

Death, at last, has claimed the life of Fremont’s oldest resident, Lewis C. Roquet, who, last July, had reached the ripe old age of 97 years. He passed away Monday, Nov. 22, at 3a.m. at the St. Joseph Hospital in Ottumwa, where he had been taken following a fall, which broke his hip, at the house of his son, Walter.

Although Mr. Roquet had been very inactive for a number of years, he enjoyed very good health, and was able to be up and around the house some every day, and ate very well. His eyesight and hearing have been somewhat effected for the last few years, and he spent the time very quietly, sleeping most of the time. Since the age of 94 years, he has made his home with son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roquet.

Mr. Roquet was born in Germany July 18, 1846 and came to this country at the age of 4 years, and has lived in and near Fremont the rest of his life. He made his home for a number of years in a log cabin three-quarter of a mile northeast of Fremont, later building a new home on the farm, where he resided until March, 1912, when he with his wife moved to Fremont. Mrs. Roquet preceded him in death in March, 1917.

Surviving are eight children: Mrs Cora Hockett of Flora, Ore.; Hamer A. Roquet of Long Beach, Calif.; George R, Roquet of Arlington; Earl Roquet of Des Moines; Mrs. Charlie O. Robbins of Martinsburg; Chester A., Ira C., and Walter A. Roquet all of Fremont; 34 grandchildren and 70 great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Nov 27th, at 2:00 p.m. at the Methodist church in Fremont. The body will be left at the Community Funeral Home in Ottumwa until one o’clock Saturday, when it will be brought to the church. Services will be conducted by Rev. Edgar L. Knight, pastor of the Christian church of Oskaloosa, assisted by Rev. J. W. Zerbe of Fremont. Burial will be in the Cedar Township cemetery.