Charles D. Becker, 85, R. R. 2, Woodburn, died at 1:40 p.m. yesterday at the Lutheran Hospital, where he had been a patient four weeks. He was a retired farmer. Mr. Becker was born in Germany and came to Woodburn from Illinois in 1905. He was a member of the Woodburn Evangelical Mennonite Church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Alma Hockstettler and Mrs. Edna Diemer, Pekin, Ill., Mrs. Laura Sutton, Fort. Wayne, and Mrs. Amelia Vickery, Huntington; three sons, Emmanuel L., Fort Wayne; Alvin G. and Ervin C., Woodburn; 19 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John and Leonard, Woodburn; two half brothers, Valentine and Karl, of Germany; one sister, Mrs. Katie Stephan, Germany; two half sisters, Katherine and Lizzie Becker, Germany.
The body is at the Schilb &Sens Funeral Home, Antwerp, Ohio, where friends may call after 6:30 p.m. today.
The body will be taken to the Mennonite Church in Woodburn at noon Sunday and lie in state until services at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Howard Landis will officiate and burial will be in Mennonite Cemetery, Woodburn.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette March 16, 1957
The body is at the Schilb &Sens Funeral Home, Antwerp, Ohio, where friends may call after 6:30 p.m. today.
The body will be taken to the Mennonite Church in Woodburn at noon Sunday and lie in state until services at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Howard Landis will officiate and burial will be in Mennonite Cemetery, Woodburn.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette March 16, 1957
Charles D. Becker, 85, R. R. 2, Woodburn, died at 1:40 p.m. yesterday at the Lutheran Hospital, where he had been a patient four weeks. He was a retired farmer. Mr. Becker was born in Germany and came to Woodburn from Illinois in 1905. He was a member of the Woodburn Evangelical Mennonite Church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Alma Hockstettler and Mrs. Edna Diemer, Pekin, Ill., Mrs. Laura Sutton, Fort. Wayne, and Mrs. Amelia Vickery, Huntington; three sons, Emmanuel L., Fort Wayne; Alvin G. and Ervin C., Woodburn; 19 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John and Leonard, Woodburn; two half brothers, Valentine and Karl, of Germany; one sister, Mrs. Katie Stephan, Germany; two half sisters, Katherine and Lizzie Becker, Germany.
The body is at the Schilb &Sens Funeral Home, Antwerp, Ohio, where friends may call after 6:30 p.m. today.
The body will be taken to the Mennonite Church in Woodburn at noon Sunday and lie in state until services at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Howard Landis will officiate and burial will be in Mennonite Cemetery, Woodburn.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette March 16, 1957
The body is at the Schilb &Sens Funeral Home, Antwerp, Ohio, where friends may call after 6:30 p.m. today.
The body will be taken to the Mennonite Church in Woodburn at noon Sunday and lie in state until services at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Howard Landis will officiate and burial will be in Mennonite Cemetery, Woodburn.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette March 16, 1957
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