AUGUST BECKER
August Becker, 59, Cooperstown farmer, dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before noon Thursday while pitching corn into a silo on the
farm of Karnopp brothers, a mile south of Maribel.
Becker had joined with other farmers to assist in filling silos on the
Karnopp farm. He toppled over suddenly and died before the arrival of
a physician.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. from the Becker home,
2 1/2 miles southwest of Maribel, and at two o'clock from the St. Johns
Evan. Lutheran church in Maribel. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Becker was born in Cooperstown in 1881 and in 1909 married Miss
Sophie Bruss. They located on a farm in Kewaunee county. In 1929 they
moved to a Cooperstown farm. Mrs. Becker died in 1934.
Survivors are a son, Orville, of Cooperstown; four brothers, William of
this city, Philip and Richard of Cooperstown, Henry of Maribel; four
sisters, Mrs. Charles Rabenhorst of Cooperstonw, Mrs. Martin Roidt of
Unity, Wis., Mrs. Richard Wolfersdorff of Milwaukee, Mrs. George
Schuette of Genoa City, Wis.; and two grandchildren. A son, Gilroy, died
in 1932.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, October 11, 1940 p.2
August Becker, 59, Cooperstown farmer, dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before noon Thursday while pitching corn into a silo on the
farm of Karnopp brothers, a mile south of Maribel.
Becker had joined with other farmers to assist in filling silos on the
Karnopp farm. He toppled over suddenly and died before the arrival of
a physician.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. from the Becker home,
2 1/2 miles southwest of Maribel, and at two o'clock from the St. Johns
Evan. Lutheran church in Maribel. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Becker was born in Cooperstown in 1881 and in 1909 married Miss
Sophie Bruss. They located on a farm in Kewaunee county. In 1929 they
moved to a Cooperstown farm. Mrs. Becker died in 1934.
Survivors are a son, Orville, of Cooperstown; four brothers, William of
this city, Philip and Richard of Cooperstown, Henry of Maribel; four
sisters, Mrs. Charles Rabenhorst of Cooperstonw, Mrs. Martin Roidt of
Unity, Wis., Mrs. Richard Wolfersdorff of Milwaukee, Mrs. George
Schuette of Genoa City, Wis.; and two grandchildren. A son, Gilroy, died
in 1932.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, October 11, 1940 p.2
AUGUST BECKER
August Becker, 59, Cooperstown farmer, dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before noon Thursday while pitching corn into a silo on the
farm of Karnopp brothers, a mile south of Maribel.
Becker had joined with other farmers to assist in filling silos on the
Karnopp farm. He toppled over suddenly and died before the arrival of
a physician.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. from the Becker home,
2 1/2 miles southwest of Maribel, and at two o'clock from the St. Johns
Evan. Lutheran church in Maribel. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Becker was born in Cooperstown in 1881 and in 1909 married Miss
Sophie Bruss. They located on a farm in Kewaunee county. In 1929 they
moved to a Cooperstown farm. Mrs. Becker died in 1934.
Survivors are a son, Orville, of Cooperstown; four brothers, William of
this city, Philip and Richard of Cooperstown, Henry of Maribel; four
sisters, Mrs. Charles Rabenhorst of Cooperstonw, Mrs. Martin Roidt of
Unity, Wis., Mrs. Richard Wolfersdorff of Milwaukee, Mrs. George
Schuette of Genoa City, Wis.; and two grandchildren. A son, Gilroy, died
in 1932.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, October 11, 1940 p.2
August Becker, 59, Cooperstown farmer, dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before noon Thursday while pitching corn into a silo on the
farm of Karnopp brothers, a mile south of Maribel.
Becker had joined with other farmers to assist in filling silos on the
Karnopp farm. He toppled over suddenly and died before the arrival of
a physician.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. from the Becker home,
2 1/2 miles southwest of Maribel, and at two o'clock from the St. Johns
Evan. Lutheran church in Maribel. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Becker was born in Cooperstown in 1881 and in 1909 married Miss
Sophie Bruss. They located on a farm in Kewaunee county. In 1929 they
moved to a Cooperstown farm. Mrs. Becker died in 1934.
Survivors are a son, Orville, of Cooperstown; four brothers, William of
this city, Philip and Richard of Cooperstown, Henry of Maribel; four
sisters, Mrs. Charles Rabenhorst of Cooperstonw, Mrs. Martin Roidt of
Unity, Wis., Mrs. Richard Wolfersdorff of Milwaukee, Mrs. George
Schuette of Genoa City, Wis.; and two grandchildren. A son, Gilroy, died
in 1932.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, October 11, 1940 p.2
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