Robert Lynn "Lynn" Lock (1900-1939)

LOCK, CHRISTIAN, HAGEN, STAHLMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/23/2021 at 13:26:17

From Nevada Evening Journal January 19, 1939 (page 1)

Lynn Lock Was Laid to Rest in Nevada Cemetery

Memorial Lutheran church was filled this afternoon with sorrowing relatives and friends, as well as brother lodgmen, gathered to pay final tribute to Lynn Lock, 38, Nevada man, who died early Monday at a sanitarium near Ottumwa.

The casket was banked with flowers and the settling was a suitable one for the impressive ceremony in charge of his pastor, Dr. J. O. Simon. There were two songs by a mixed quartette consisting of Mrs. J. O. Simon, Virginia Hankins, Everett Fry and Howard Hilburn.

Members of Nevada Lodge, No. 99 A. F. & A. M. and of Central Iowa Lodge No. 104 I. O. O. F. both of which he was a member, attended in a body.

Pallbearers were selected from among the Odd Fellows and the body was laid to rest in the Nevada cemetery with the Masonic Committal service.

Robert Lynn Lock, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lock, was born on a farm near Pontiac, Illinois, on December 28, 1900.

He was unite in marriage to June Christian on December 16, 1926. To this union was born one son, Frank.

They established their home in Detroit, Mich., where he conducted a garage until he moved to Nevada. For eight years he had continued in the garage business here until he began failing in health about a year ago. The past three months he had been confined in the hospital at Ottumwa where he passed away at 7:30 Monday morning, January 16, 1939, at the age of 38 years and nineteen days.

He is survived by his widow and son Frank, his mother, Mrs. Ella Lock, sisters Mrs. Martin Hagen of Ames and Mrs. Harvey Stahlman of Nevada and brothers Cassell, Raymond and William Lock.

Lynn was a member of the Memorial Lutheran church of Nevada. He was also an active member of the Odd Fellow and Masonic lodges. He was a kind, loving husband and father as well as a man of marked business perception. He made a wide acquaintance of friends who together with the relatives mourn his passing.