Fred O. Workman Sr. Rites At B irmingham
WORKMAN, BYERS, HUBER, CATCOTT, ARCHIBALD
Posted By: Chuck Workman (email)
Date: 4/18/2009 at 19:27:45
KEOSAUQUA - Fred Oliver Workman, Sr., 82, Keosauqua, died at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after he had been admitted to the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield.(Dec 1941) He had been a patient at the Fairfield Convalescent Home for the past three months.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Birmingham Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Millard Marshall in charge. Burial will be in the Maple Hill Cemetery at Birmingham. The body is at the Catcott Funeral Home in Keosauqua.
Workman was a retired rural mail carrier, having carried mail from the Birmingham post office for 35 years before his retirement.
He received a 50-year pin from the Workman AF and AM Lodge of Stockport and attended the Birmingham Presbyterian Church where a memorial fund has been established.
Workman attended Parsons College where he played football and remained an avid sports fan until his death. He also played drums in a number of bands through the years.
Fred O. Workman was born Jan. 6, 1889, near Birmingham, the son of Gerand W. and Emma Huber Workman. He married Nelle Byers in January, 1915. She died in 1954.
Survivors include two children, Mrs. Katherine Catcott, Keosauqua, and Fred Oliver Workman Jr., 502 E. Pierce, Fairfield; one sister, Mrs. Stella Archibald, Chugwater, Wyoming; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and three sisters.
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