STEARNS, Fred Howard 1883-1936

STEARNS, TUPPER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/31/2010 at 14:42:07

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Stearns Succumbs in Rochester;
Funeral to Be Conducted in Osage

OSAGE, IOWA - Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Champion funeral home for Fred H. Stearns, 53, who died early Tuesday morning at St, Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, following an operation for a ruptured appendix a week ago Tuesday morning. The Rev. Stiles Lessly will have charge of tie service which will be held at the home.

Mr. Stearns was born April 24, 1883, in St. Charles, Minn., the son of Mr, and Mrs. Frank H. Stearns. At the age of seven he moved with his parents to Winona, Minn., where they lived until they moved here in 1902.

June 11, 1908 he was married to Zadie E. Tupper and they had five children. For the past 14 years he has worked as railway expressman.

Surviving are his widow and five children and his father, Frank Stearns of Randolph, Minnesota. Burial will be in the local cemetery.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette, Wednesday, June 3, 1936]
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FRED H. STEARNS
DIED AFTER ONLY
A WEEK'S ILLNESS

Fred H. Stearns, 53, passed away at a Rochester hospital on Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock, after an illness of just a week. Mr. Stearns became suddenly ill while on his run on the Great Western railroad, and upon his arrival at Rochester his father, veteran train man also on that run, rushed his son to a hospital, where an operation revealed a ruptured appendix.

From the first his condition was grave, but Sunday when his daughters drove up to see him, he appeared some better, and they returned home encouraged. Late that evening, however, a call came to Osage saying that he was not so well. Monday the doctors knew that he was beyond help, and the family again was summoned.

His youngest daughter "Bee", came Monday from Ames, where she is attending college, and Frederic, a Carleton student, from Northfield, to be with him.

Only one member of the family, William, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was unable to be at his bedside. It was impossible for him to get here until Tuesday.

Fred H. Stearns as a young man worked in the Goodall & Prime drug store and in the Tupper & Odden hardware store, and later for more than twenty-five years has been employed in different capacities on the Chicago Great Western railroad. For the past fourteen years he has been an expressman, and his run for some time has been from McIntire to Rochester.

His marriage to Zadie Tupper took place June 11, 1908. To them were born five children: Mazie Grace, Helen, "Bee," Frederic, at home, and William, Grand Rapids, Michigan. They and their mother, with his father, Frank Stearns, survive.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at the Stearns home, in charge of the Rev. Stiles Lessly, pastor of the Congegational church, and burial is to be made in the Osage Cemetery.

[ MITCHELL COUNTY PRESS -- June 4, 1936 ]
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The Osage City Cemetery listing on IaGenWeb shows:

STEARNS, FRED HOWARD (died/buried) 04 JUN 1936 (bur. loc) 0660 3

STEARNS, FREDRICK TUPPER (died/buried) 18 FEB 1949 (bur. loc) 0660 12

STEARNS, ZADIE ELLEN TUPPER (died/buried) 02 OCT 1943 (bur. loc) 0660 2