William Carl Schenk

SCHENK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 23:50:48

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

William Carl Schenk
By Dorothy Logan Schenk

My father-in-law, William Carl Schenk, was well-known in Sioux City, where he was associated with the LiveStock National Bank for almost fifty years. He was born of German parentage, January 11, 1901, and remembered his mother spoke German fluently and English hardly at all. The family moved to Sioux City when he was a child. He attended Sioux City when he was a child. He attended Sioux City schools until about the fourth grade, when to supplement the family income, he started as a messenger for the band in 1916. He was a hardworking, thrifty and ambitious man, and was promoted through the ranks until he became Vice-President of the LiveStock National Bank, in 1950. He was a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church. He was a member of Morningside Lodge 615, AF&AM; Columbian Commander; Royal Arch Masons; AbuBekr Shrine Temple; and the Sioux City Boat Club. He was very interested in the Sioux City Cowboys, a baseball pro-team in the middle 1930s, known in the Skyline League. He sold tickets for all their games, as well as for the East and Central high school teams. (At that time, the football was just east of the baseball diamond.)

He announced his retirement from the bank on October 1, 1963, ending forty-six years and seven months of active banking. After his wife, Fern, died July 25, 1964, he seemed to lose his interest in living, and died of a broken heart, November 10, 1964. (For the names of his children and grandchildren, please see listing under Fern Kosak Schenk.)