Husband of Ora Katherine (Wolf) Fox, Father of Katherine Fox Schibi and Donald Fox, Grandfather of Sharon Schibi Banister and Marcia Schibi Gaines, Great Grandfather of Julie Banister Gunter, Scott Banister, Sandy Banister Riniker and Chad Banister, and Greg Gaines, Grant Gaines and Taylor Gaines and numerous great, great grandchildren.
Rudolph is my wife's Grandfather.
Rudolph Alfred Fox, born on March 24, 1887 of Michael Fox and Henerietta Vogler Fox, themselves offspring of German Immigrants, come to the fertile but still wild Loess Hills of what is now NW Missouri.
Rudolph's wife, Ora Wolf Fox, is also descended from German Immigrants who settled in the future Atchison County, Missouri.
He was a life-long Missouri farmer who, in the early years of the twentieth century, hewed from native oak and Missouri stone and his own brawn, blood and sweat, the house in which he and Ora would spend the rest of their lives.
Rudolph farmed for fifty years 220 acres of fertile Missouri land that he cleared, planted and harvested virtually alone. Until a scant ten years before his death, he did not with a tractor and mechanized tools but, rather, with a loyal team of Belgian horses.
He semi-retired (can a farmer ever really retire?) in 1959 at the age of 72.
As to often happens to people who have only known backbreaking work throughout their lives, one year after retiring, Rudolph Alfred Fox died on a cold and dreary December 21, 1960 at the Fairfax Community Hospital. He was interred in Green Hill Cemetery in Rock Port three days later, on a cold, blustery day as biting sleet lacerated his mourners.
His last earthly smile was the day before he died, at his first grandchild, my eldest daughter, Julie, who was ten months old.
Those who knew Rudolph best know with as much certainty that a fallible human being can muster, that Rudolph is now smiling alongside his lovely wife, Ora, in the loving protection of his Savior, Jesus Christ.
Rudolph is my wife's Grandfather.
Rudolph Alfred Fox, born on March 24, 1887 of Michael Fox and Henerietta Vogler Fox, themselves offspring of German Immigrants, come to the fertile but still wild Loess Hills of what is now NW Missouri.
Rudolph's wife, Ora Wolf Fox, is also descended from German Immigrants who settled in the future Atchison County, Missouri.
He was a life-long Missouri farmer who, in the early years of the twentieth century, hewed from native oak and Missouri stone and his own brawn, blood and sweat, the house in which he and Ora would spend the rest of their lives.
Rudolph farmed for fifty years 220 acres of fertile Missouri land that he cleared, planted and harvested virtually alone. Until a scant ten years before his death, he did not with a tractor and mechanized tools but, rather, with a loyal team of Belgian horses.
He semi-retired (can a farmer ever really retire?) in 1959 at the age of 72.
As to often happens to people who have only known backbreaking work throughout their lives, one year after retiring, Rudolph Alfred Fox died on a cold and dreary December 21, 1960 at the Fairfax Community Hospital. He was interred in Green Hill Cemetery in Rock Port three days later, on a cold, blustery day as biting sleet lacerated his mourners.
His last earthly smile was the day before he died, at his first grandchild, my eldest daughter, Julie, who was ten months old.
Those who knew Rudolph best know with as much certainty that a fallible human being can muster, that Rudolph is now smiling alongside his lovely wife, Ora, in the loving protection of his Savior, Jesus Christ.
Husband of Ora Katherine (Wolf) Fox, Father of Katherine Fox Schibi and Donald Fox, Grandfather of Sharon Schibi Banister and Marcia Schibi Gaines, Great Grandfather of Julie Banister Gunter, Scott Banister, Sandy Banister Riniker and Chad Banister, and Greg Gaines, Grant Gaines and Taylor Gaines and numerous great, great grandchildren.
Rudolph is my wife's Grandfather.
Rudolph Alfred Fox, born on March 24, 1887 of Michael Fox and Henerietta Vogler Fox, themselves offspring of German Immigrants, come to the fertile but still wild Loess Hills of what is now NW Missouri.
Rudolph's wife, Ora Wolf Fox, is also descended from German Immigrants who settled in the future Atchison County, Missouri.
He was a life-long Missouri farmer who, in the early years of the twentieth century, hewed from native oak and Missouri stone and his own brawn, blood and sweat, the house in which he and Ora would spend the rest of their lives.
Rudolph farmed for fifty years 220 acres of fertile Missouri land that he cleared, planted and harvested virtually alone. Until a scant ten years before his death, he did not with a tractor and mechanized tools but, rather, with a loyal team of Belgian horses.
He semi-retired (can a farmer ever really retire?) in 1959 at the age of 72.
As to often happens to people who have only known backbreaking work throughout their lives, one year after retiring, Rudolph Alfred Fox died on a cold and dreary December 21, 1960 at the Fairfax Community Hospital. He was interred in Green Hill Cemetery in Rock Port three days later, on a cold, blustery day as biting sleet lacerated his mourners.
His last earthly smile was the day before he died, at his first grandchild, my eldest daughter, Julie, who was ten months old.
Those who knew Rudolph best know with as much certainty that a fallible human being can muster, that Rudolph is now smiling alongside his lovely wife, Ora, in the loving protection of his Savior, Jesus Christ.
Rudolph is my wife's Grandfather.
Rudolph Alfred Fox, born on March 24, 1887 of Michael Fox and Henerietta Vogler Fox, themselves offspring of German Immigrants, come to the fertile but still wild Loess Hills of what is now NW Missouri.
Rudolph's wife, Ora Wolf Fox, is also descended from German Immigrants who settled in the future Atchison County, Missouri.
He was a life-long Missouri farmer who, in the early years of the twentieth century, hewed from native oak and Missouri stone and his own brawn, blood and sweat, the house in which he and Ora would spend the rest of their lives.
Rudolph farmed for fifty years 220 acres of fertile Missouri land that he cleared, planted and harvested virtually alone. Until a scant ten years before his death, he did not with a tractor and mechanized tools but, rather, with a loyal team of Belgian horses.
He semi-retired (can a farmer ever really retire?) in 1959 at the age of 72.
As to often happens to people who have only known backbreaking work throughout their lives, one year after retiring, Rudolph Alfred Fox died on a cold and dreary December 21, 1960 at the Fairfax Community Hospital. He was interred in Green Hill Cemetery in Rock Port three days later, on a cold, blustery day as biting sleet lacerated his mourners.
His last earthly smile was the day before he died, at his first grandchild, my eldest daughter, Julie, who was ten months old.
Those who knew Rudolph best know with as much certainty that a fallible human being can muster, that Rudolph is now smiling alongside his lovely wife, Ora, in the loving protection of his Savior, Jesus Christ.
