(I'm cheating by using the maiden name field to show the original surname. In the 1910s, everyone in the family started using "Back" instead of "Bock", possibly due to anti-German sentiment at the time.)
Although he officially had no children, he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Florence Weishalla when he was 20 and Florence was 18.
RAIL CONDUCTOR TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral to Be Held Tuesday
for Thomas E. Back
Last rites for Thomas Edward Back, 76, W811 Dalton, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 at the Hazen & Jaeger funeral home. The Rev. Frank G. Van Doren will officiate.
Mr. Back died yeaterday morning after a month-long illness.
Mr. Back was a reteired Great Northern railway conductor. He started with the company at the age of 16 in St. Cloud Minn.
He came to Spokane 35 years ago and for several years was a passenger conductor on the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway. He transferred back to the Great Northern railroad.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Gladys M. Back, at the home; two stepsons, Leslie W. Walters[ and Gordon Walters, Spokane; two step-grandchildren], Dennis Lee and Dana Jean Walters, Spokane; a sister, Mrs. Ida Jentz, Portland; a brother, George M. Back, Chehallis, Wash., and three nieces. (Spokesman Review, July 15, 1951, p. 6)
So by July 1951, only two siblings are still alive. The three nieces must the daughter of sister Nora (Ida Curvers Wiley), and the two daugters of Ida (Frankie Jentz, and Rhoda Jentz Christ).
Although he officially had no children, he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Florence Weishalla when he was 20 and Florence was 18.
RAIL CONDUCTOR TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral to Be Held Tuesday
for Thomas E. Back
Last rites for Thomas Edward Back, 76, W811 Dalton, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 at the Hazen & Jaeger funeral home. The Rev. Frank G. Van Doren will officiate.
Mr. Back died yeaterday morning after a month-long illness.
Mr. Back was a reteired Great Northern railway conductor. He started with the company at the age of 16 in St. Cloud Minn.
He came to Spokane 35 years ago and for several years was a passenger conductor on the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway. He transferred back to the Great Northern railroad.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Gladys M. Back, at the home; two stepsons, Leslie W. Walters[ and Gordon Walters, Spokane; two step-grandchildren], Dennis Lee and Dana Jean Walters, Spokane; a sister, Mrs. Ida Jentz, Portland; a brother, George M. Back, Chehallis, Wash., and three nieces. (Spokesman Review, July 15, 1951, p. 6)
So by July 1951, only two siblings are still alive. The three nieces must the daughter of sister Nora (Ida Curvers Wiley), and the two daugters of Ida (Frankie Jentz, and Rhoda Jentz Christ).
(I'm cheating by using the maiden name field to show the original surname. In the 1910s, everyone in the family started using "Back" instead of "Bock", possibly due to anti-German sentiment at the time.)
Although he officially had no children, he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Florence Weishalla when he was 20 and Florence was 18.
RAIL CONDUCTOR TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral to Be Held Tuesday
for Thomas E. Back
Last rites for Thomas Edward Back, 76, W811 Dalton, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 at the Hazen & Jaeger funeral home. The Rev. Frank G. Van Doren will officiate.
Mr. Back died yeaterday morning after a month-long illness.
Mr. Back was a reteired Great Northern railway conductor. He started with the company at the age of 16 in St. Cloud Minn.
He came to Spokane 35 years ago and for several years was a passenger conductor on the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway. He transferred back to the Great Northern railroad.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Gladys M. Back, at the home; two stepsons, Leslie W. Walters[ and Gordon Walters, Spokane; two step-grandchildren], Dennis Lee and Dana Jean Walters, Spokane; a sister, Mrs. Ida Jentz, Portland; a brother, George M. Back, Chehallis, Wash., and three nieces. (Spokesman Review, July 15, 1951, p. 6)
So by July 1951, only two siblings are still alive. The three nieces must the daughter of sister Nora (Ida Curvers Wiley), and the two daugters of Ida (Frankie Jentz, and Rhoda Jentz Christ).
Although he officially had no children, he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Florence Weishalla when he was 20 and Florence was 18.
RAIL CONDUCTOR TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral to Be Held Tuesday
for Thomas E. Back
Last rites for Thomas Edward Back, 76, W811 Dalton, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 at the Hazen & Jaeger funeral home. The Rev. Frank G. Van Doren will officiate.
Mr. Back died yeaterday morning after a month-long illness.
Mr. Back was a reteired Great Northern railway conductor. He started with the company at the age of 16 in St. Cloud Minn.
He came to Spokane 35 years ago and for several years was a passenger conductor on the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway. He transferred back to the Great Northern railroad.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Gladys M. Back, at the home; two stepsons, Leslie W. Walters[ and Gordon Walters, Spokane; two step-grandchildren], Dennis Lee and Dana Jean Walters, Spokane; a sister, Mrs. Ida Jentz, Portland; a brother, George M. Back, Chehallis, Wash., and three nieces. (Spokesman Review, July 15, 1951, p. 6)
So by July 1951, only two siblings are still alive. The three nieces must the daughter of sister Nora (Ida Curvers Wiley), and the two daugters of Ida (Frankie Jentz, and Rhoda Jentz Christ).
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