Kermit Fork 1913 - 2009

BOCK, FORK, WIECHELMAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/18/2020 at 19:30:34

Sioux City Journal
5 February 2009

Buried Sioux City

BATTLE CREEK, Iowa -- Kermit Fork, 96, of Battle Creek died Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Battle Creek, with the Rev. Randy Cormeny officiating. Graveside services will be 2:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City. Visitation will be 9 a.m. until service time Friday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Christensen-Huffman Funeral Home in Battle Creek. Condolences may be sent online to www.christensenhuffman.com.

Born Jan. 29, 1913, in Carroll, Neb., Kermit Reynold Otto Fork was the son of Edward and Anna (Bock) Fork. He was baptized in February 1913 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Carroll. He was later confirmed in the Lutheran faith.

On Jan. 25, 1942, he was united in marriage to Frances Nona Wiechelman at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Carroll, Neb. The couple farmed in Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. They retired to Battle Creek in 1991.

He was a faithful member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Battle Creek. He will be remembered for his unique sense of humor and for his willingness to help others.

Survivors include his wife, Frances; two daughters and their husbands, Elaine and Dave Stricker of Scottsbluff, Neb., and Judie and Keith Weinzetl of Dovray, Minn.; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Norman K. Fork; a daughter, Frances Jean Stoll; three brothers, Art, Ed and Ernie Fork; and five sisters, Helen Fork, Esther Vollerson, Laura Fork, Ruth Winters and Gladys Fork.