Fred Nordengren 1862-1926

NORDENGREN, BENDIXEN, LINDSTROM, WINCKLER

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Date: 4/7/2008 at 11:15:18

The Davenport Democrat & Leader; Thursday Evening, December 23, 1926:

City Railway Foreman Dies Sudden Stroke

Stricken This Morning in Local Café; Dies Shortly Before Noon

Fred Nordengren, 622 Carey avenue, a foreman in the employ of the Tri-City Railway Co., died this morning at 11:40 o’clock at Mercy hospital where he was removed following a paralytic stroke which he suffered at 6 a.m. in the Hobson café, 225 Perry street.
When he was brought to the hospital, Dr. P. A. Bendixen, the physician in attendance announced his condition as serious.
Nordengren had been an employee of the railway company for 24 years and for some time had been a foreman in the track department.
He was born in Sweden March 8, 1862, later coming to this country, and in 1892 to this community. In 1899 he married Miss Anna M. Lindstrom of Davenport at Kansas City, Missouri. He was a member of the Swedish Baptist church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. J. S. Winckler, Davenport; a brother, Charles, La Crosse, Wis.; two grandsons, Joseph Winckler, Jr., and Frederick Nordengren and many distant relatives in Sweden.
The body was removed to Horrigan & Son mortuary pending funeral arrangements.