Hakes, Montague Rundall

HAKES, RUNDALL

Posted By: Gayle P. Snow (email)
Date: 5/10/2024 at 17:05:53

The Laurens Sun; 7 July 1921
Montague Hakes Died Suddenly Last Tuesday
Was Not Seriously Ill Until Monday, Then Died After Operation Following Day

The community was never more shaken that it was Tuesday morning when it became known that Montague Hakes was very low and that the end might be expected any moment for very few knew that he was sick at all.

He complained of not feeling well on Sunday but was not taken seriously ill until Monday afternoon and when a physician was summoned it was seen that an immediate operation was the only chance he had and that was a slim one. Dr. Bowen of Ft. Dodge was called to assist the local doctors and the operation was performed after midnight, Tuesday morning but he did not survive the shock. Mr. Hakes had been troubled for about a year with a rupture but he complained very little so that very few knew that anything was the matter with him. Only a couple of months ago a noted surgeon at (?) advised him to undergo an operation but said that it was a minor affair and would not take long.

The names Montague Hakes and Laurens suggest each other. He came to Laurens in (1886?) and has been continuously in business ever since. No man ever stuck closer to business than he. The old town did not look natural with the Hakes store closed the past two days.

The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon (Friday) at three o'clock from the home.

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The Laurens Sun, 14 July 1921

Many Attend Funeral of Montague Hakes Friday
Rev. J. P. Lucas, Former Laurens Pastor, Addresses Multitude of Sorrowing Friends

Montague Hakes was born in (?) near Martelle, in Jones county, Iowa, on February 24, 1858, and died in Laurens, Iowa, on July 5, 1921, aged sixty-three years, four months and eleven days.

His parents were pioneers who came to the eastern part of Iowa, (with?) the early emigrants, even as he himself was later pioneer among the western people of the state. His (?) established themselves in (New?) England long before the Revolutionary war, and the family is of long standing in America and its members are widely disseminated through the United States.

In 1863 when he was a child of five years, his father removed the family for a time to California, driving in an emigrant wagon from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to the Pacific coast. They stayed in the far west but a short time and returned again by way of the Isthmus of Panama and by boat (?) to Iowa.

He received his early education in the country schools of Jones county, was a student for a while in the high school at Anamona, and then (?) a scientific course in the Iowa (?) college at Ames, where he was graduated in 1880.

He was a member of the first City Council at the time of the incorporation of the town of Laurens, and helped to lay broad and deep the early foundations of the town. He was a member of the legislature from the 76th Representative district of Iowa, embracing Pocahontas county, during the 30 and 31 General Assembly, where he was distinguished for his business judgment and acumen and for his progressive tendencies, especially along educational lines.