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Harry Kloek –Died 1920

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/5/2018 at 10:00:44

Sioux City Journal
26 March 1920

Stock Yards Man Is Buried
Funeral Of Harry Kloek Is Held At Doon
Won Three Medals In War
On His Discharge from Army He Was Afflicted With Boils –These Developed Into Abscesses—Dies at Rochester, Minnesota

Harry Kloek –Died 1920

The funeral of Harry Kloek, who died Sunday at Rochester, Minnesota, was held Thursday at Doon, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Kloek, reside. Burial was in the Doon Cemetery.

Preceding the war, Mr. Kloek was employed for three years by Ingwersen Bros., a commission firm at the Sioux City Stock yards. He enlisted May 26, 1918 and went overseas the following August with the Marines. He received three medals – one for bravery in action, one for marksmanship and one for remaining on the firing line longer than the allotted time.

On his discharge from the army Mr. Kloek was afflicted with boils. Later these developed into abscesses, which involved one kidney and his brain. His physician declared the abscess on the brain was the immediate cause of death.

For six months Mr. Kloek was treated in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Sioux City. Showing no improvement here, he was discharged and then went to Lincoln to visit his fiancée, Miss Mabel Simmons, a former resident of Morningside. While in Lincoln Mr. Kloek suffered a recrudescence of his affliction and entered a hospital in Lincoln. A week later he was transferred to Rochester, Minnesota and was there but a few days when he died.

Mr. Kloek was a Mason and a member of the Congregational Church and had a wife acquaintance at the stock yards.

Mr. Kloek was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kloek of Morningside and a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Stonebraker of Morningside who attended the funeral.


 

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