Fred Engelkes

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Military Service
War: WWI
Unit: Co. C 39th Eng.

Personal Details
Born: 14 February 1893
Died: 2 April 1918
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Buried:
Pleasant Valley Reformed Church Cemetery
Pleasant Valley Township, Grundy County, Iowa

Engelkes Dies In New York

Grundy County Soldier Succumbs to Pneumonia

Fred Engelkes, one of the Grundy County soldier boys from north part of the county died from pneumonia Tuesday in a hospital in New York. Engelkes and his brother Hildert were among the 57 boys sent to Camp Dodge from Grundy Center February 26th. They were transferred last week to a camp in New York state, the mother receiving a telegram one day noting their safe arrival there and the next day a second message stating he was ill of pneumonia. The body is being brought to Parkersburg and burial will take place at the cemetery in the north part of the county. Fred was 25 years old, having been born February 14th, 1893. His mother is Mrs. Agnes Engelkes, the father having died some time ago.

Rev. Dilman Smith will conduct the services and the plan is to have the body brought to Grundy Center if possible and give the people of the county opportunity to do honor to our soldier dead. Soldiers are to be secured as pall bearers. George Wieben from the east of the county was the first Grundy boy to die in the service. The death of Fred Engelkes is the first loss from this part of the county. The Engelkes families are well known all over the county and there will be a considerable feeling of personal loss to the people of Grundy County, especially in the territory from Grundy Center north. Further information in regard to funeral arrangements can be secured by phoning to the court house Friday.

--The Grundy Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 4 April 1918, pg 1