Bay, Axel C. 1889-1979

BAY, GLEASON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 1/4/2008 at 15:32:19

AXEL C. BAY

AKRON, Iowa – Axel C. Bay, 89, of Akron, died Wednesday in a Sioux City hospital of brief illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Patrick Catholic Church of Akron. The Rev. Stanley Stone will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. today in the Schroeder Funeral Home at Akron.

Mr. Bay was born Aug. 4, 1889, in Hjorring, Denmark.

He married Margaret Gleason April 5, 1915, at Akron. They farmed in Preston Township, rural Akron until 1963 when they retired to Akron. She died Jan. 1, 1967.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Loyd (Agnes) Lamoureux of Sioux City, Mrs. Loren (Clare) Thuringer of South Sioux City, and Mrs. Curtis (Barbara) Hansen of Akron; five sons, Gene of Rock Valley, Jules and Paul, both of Sioux City, and Stanley of Akron and Phillip of Lawrence, Kan.; 24 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one sister, Signe Bay of Denmark.

[Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection; Source: Sioux City Journal]

~Note: Date penned on this obituary is July 4, 1979.