Eichhorn, Martin "Dean" 1860-1951

EICHHORN, ONTHANK, LUNT, UPCHURCH, OLSON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/26/2013 at 08:15:24

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register

DEAN EICHHORN
PASSED AWAY
THIS MORNING

Funeral Services in the
Methodist Church
Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Martin Eichhorn, known as Dean to all his friends, ended life's long pilgrimage when he passed away at 3 o'clock this morning in a local hospital where he had been a patient since he suffered a stroke while attending a picnic in Merrill Park a week ago Sunday. He had passed his 91st birthday on Feb. 26, but had been alert and active up to the time of his last illness.

FUNERAL SERVICES

Funeral services will be held in the Methodist church at 2 .m. Wednesday in charge of Rev. W.F. Overhulser. Pall bearers will be his grandsons, Philip and Jack Eichhorn, Marion Onthank, Roger Lunt, Kendall Upchurch and Raymond Olson. Interment will be in the Malcom cemetery. Friends may call at the Smith funeral home.

Mr. Eichhorn is survived by his wife and three sons, Floyd of Brooklyn and Garland and Shirley of Grinnell.

LONGTIME RESIDENT

Mr. Eichhorn had been a well known figure in Poweshiek county where he had lived since 1877. Most of his active life was spent on the home place, four miles east and a mile north of Grinnell. He retired from farming in 1913 and moved to Grinnell, where he had lived ever since in the home at the corner of Eighth avenue and Summer street.

A FRIENDLY MAN

Mr. Eichhorn was a friendly man, with a genuine interest in people. Friends will miss his cordial greeting and warm handshake as they met him on the street.

He had long been active in the Grinnell Methodist church and was a member of the Elks lodge and the Odd Fellows.
=============================================
View Find A Grave Memorial #81012986