STRICKLING, Dr. Frank Ellsworth, 1886-1942

STICKLING, BRADY, BETTS

Posted By: Betty Hootman-Volunteer
Date: 11/17/2012 at 22:35:57

Frank E. Stickling

Frank Ellsworth Strickling, son of William J. and Laura Brady Stickling was born in Keosauqua, Iowa, May 14, 1886. He grew to manhood in Keosauqua and after finishing school his parents moved to Keokuk, Iowa, so that he and his brother Harlie, would have the opportunity to attend Keokuk Medical college and Pharmacy school.

After graduation Frank commenced his practice in Batavia, Iowa. He was there only a short time when a more promising situation developed at Birmingham, Iowa, and he moved his office there.

Soon after finishing his medical college course in 1906 he was married to Miss Beulah Betts of Keokuk, Iowa.

He had a splendid practice in Birmingham and still has many friends in the vicinity. While there he was Master of the Masonic lodge and was very active in all matter for the benefit of the town and community.

During world war No. 1 he enlisted in the medical corps, sold his home and his practice, his wife going to Keokuk to be with her parents until the war was over.

When Frank was mustered out of the army he decided to specialize in eye, ear, nose and throat, so he and his wife went to Chicago and remained until he had finished his post graduate course there.

He went to Decatur, Ill. from Chicago and opened an office in the Standard Life building and stayed there until his death on June ??, 1942.

Only recently he and his wife built a new brick residence at 145 Manor Place, Decatur. Frank and his wife had no children.

He was a First Lieutenant in the medical corps of the first world war. He was a member of the First Congregational church, the America Legion, the Decatur club and the Decatur Country club.

He is survived by his wife, and one brother, H. A. Strickling of Galeburg, Ill.

His parents are buried in Keosauqua and his wife’s parents in Warsaw, Ill. Each Decoration Day since the death of his first parent, Frank and Beulah have visited both cemeteries with beautiful flowers. This last Decoration Day is the first they have missed.

Funeral services were held in Decatur on Saturday, June 27, directed by the Castle Williams Post of the American Legion. Burial was in the Fairlawn cemetery, Decatur.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book B, page 4, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA