Becker, Heye 1823-1903

BECKER, MYERS, GAYETTS, HILDEBRAND, BUSS

Posted By: Janet M Schuldt (email)
Date: 4/4/2017 at 17:41:50

Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa Tuesday , May 12th , 1903

Mr. Heye Becker died at his home in Seney Saturday morning after a long and painful illness.

Heye Becker was born in Germany Feb. 2, 1823, and came to America in 1858, settling in Alton, Illinois, where he married Miss Myers and to whom three children were born. His first wife died and after a few years he married Miss Margretta Gayetts who with six children survive him. Mr. Becker was at one time a successful local preacher and was an intimate friend of the famous preacher, Peter Castwright. In 1883 he moved from his farm in Illinois to Plymouth and settled on his farm in Elgin township where he has lived till about two years ago when on account of the increasing infirmities of old age he rented the farm and moved into town.

Mr. Becker is survived by his widow and nine children, Henry and Bertha of Sioux City Will, John and Mrs. Anna Buss of LeMars, Mrs. Minnie Hillebrand of Webster, S. D., Frank, Emma and Otto of Seney.

Mr. Becker had lived out his allotted time of three score and ten and was ready and anxious to go. He was a man who was held in high esteem by his friends and loved for kindly genial disposition and his death is sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends and neighbors. There was a short service at the home Monday conducted by Revs. Rhienfrank and Skaggs from there to the German M E Church in LeMars of which the deceased was a consistent member and the remains were interred in the city cemetery.