"MRS. SAM'L FIKE DIES AT HER HOME IN ORANGE TWP."
"Resident 57 Years; Husband and Four Children at Her Bedside."
"Mrs. Samuel FIKE, 78, for 57 years a resident of Orange township, and active in the Church of the Brethren, of which she had been a member since girlhood, died at 2:45 a.m. Monday at her home in Orange Center after an illness of three weeks of embolism and complications.
"Surrounding her bedside when the end came were her husband and her son and three daughters--Lloyd K. FIKE, Empire, Cal.; Mrs. Elizabeth FORNEY, Stockton, Cal.; Mrs. Lulu HARTZEL, at home, and Mrs. Stella HARBAUGH, Orange township.
"Also Foster Son."
"Harry PURDY, 229 Oak Lawn avenue, was reared in the FIKE home an always treated as a member of the family. The kindness shown to him causes him to mourn Mrs. FIKE's death as deeply as tho she were his real mother.
"Sarah KIMMEL, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (MILLER) KIMMEL, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Somerset county Pennsylvania. In 1879, when she was 21 years old, Sarah KIMMEL moved to Orange township, On Feb. 22, 1882, she was married to Samuel FIKE in Waterloo by the late Rev. Jacob A. MURRAY, a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
"Mr. and Mrs. FIKE celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary last Washington's birthday.
"Five Brothers, Sisters."
"Surviving besides he husband, son and daughters listed above are five grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Harvey KIMMEL and Miss Emma KIMMEL, Somerset, Pa.; Mrs. Rebekah FRIEDLINE, Sipesville, Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth PHILLIPPI, Bucklin, Kan.; G. W. KIMMEL, Hancock, Minn.
"Mrs. FIKE was a member of South Waterloo Church of the Brethren, of which W. H. YODER is pastor.
"The body was taken to the PETERSEN Brothers funeral home.
"Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren in Orange Center, conducted by Rev. J. E. MILLER, Elgin, Ill., assisted by Rev. W. O. TANNREUTHER. Marvin GRADY, Lawrence GRADY, Vernon MILLER, Kenneth KNOP, Donald HAMER and Glenn BRONSON will act as bearers. Burial will be in the Orange cemetery." --The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Mon., 04 May 1936.
"Resident 57 Years; Husband and Four Children at Her Bedside."
"Mrs. Samuel FIKE, 78, for 57 years a resident of Orange township, and active in the Church of the Brethren, of which she had been a member since girlhood, died at 2:45 a.m. Monday at her home in Orange Center after an illness of three weeks of embolism and complications.
"Surrounding her bedside when the end came were her husband and her son and three daughters--Lloyd K. FIKE, Empire, Cal.; Mrs. Elizabeth FORNEY, Stockton, Cal.; Mrs. Lulu HARTZEL, at home, and Mrs. Stella HARBAUGH, Orange township.
"Also Foster Son."
"Harry PURDY, 229 Oak Lawn avenue, was reared in the FIKE home an always treated as a member of the family. The kindness shown to him causes him to mourn Mrs. FIKE's death as deeply as tho she were his real mother.
"Sarah KIMMEL, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (MILLER) KIMMEL, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Somerset county Pennsylvania. In 1879, when she was 21 years old, Sarah KIMMEL moved to Orange township, On Feb. 22, 1882, she was married to Samuel FIKE in Waterloo by the late Rev. Jacob A. MURRAY, a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
"Mr. and Mrs. FIKE celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary last Washington's birthday.
"Five Brothers, Sisters."
"Surviving besides he husband, son and daughters listed above are five grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Harvey KIMMEL and Miss Emma KIMMEL, Somerset, Pa.; Mrs. Rebekah FRIEDLINE, Sipesville, Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth PHILLIPPI, Bucklin, Kan.; G. W. KIMMEL, Hancock, Minn.
"Mrs. FIKE was a member of South Waterloo Church of the Brethren, of which W. H. YODER is pastor.
"The body was taken to the PETERSEN Brothers funeral home.
"Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren in Orange Center, conducted by Rev. J. E. MILLER, Elgin, Ill., assisted by Rev. W. O. TANNREUTHER. Marvin GRADY, Lawrence GRADY, Vernon MILLER, Kenneth KNOP, Donald HAMER and Glenn BRONSON will act as bearers. Burial will be in the Orange cemetery." --The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Mon., 04 May 1936.
"MRS. SAM'L FIKE DIES AT HER HOME IN ORANGE TWP."
"Resident 57 Years; Husband and Four Children at Her Bedside."
"Mrs. Samuel FIKE, 78, for 57 years a resident of Orange township, and active in the Church of the Brethren, of which she had been a member since girlhood, died at 2:45 a.m. Monday at her home in Orange Center after an illness of three weeks of embolism and complications.
"Surrounding her bedside when the end came were her husband and her son and three daughters--Lloyd K. FIKE, Empire, Cal.; Mrs. Elizabeth FORNEY, Stockton, Cal.; Mrs. Lulu HARTZEL, at home, and Mrs. Stella HARBAUGH, Orange township.
"Also Foster Son."
"Harry PURDY, 229 Oak Lawn avenue, was reared in the FIKE home an always treated as a member of the family. The kindness shown to him causes him to mourn Mrs. FIKE's death as deeply as tho she were his real mother.
"Sarah KIMMEL, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (MILLER) KIMMEL, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Somerset county Pennsylvania. In 1879, when she was 21 years old, Sarah KIMMEL moved to Orange township, On Feb. 22, 1882, she was married to Samuel FIKE in Waterloo by the late Rev. Jacob A. MURRAY, a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
"Mr. and Mrs. FIKE celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary last Washington's birthday.
"Five Brothers, Sisters."
"Surviving besides he husband, son and daughters listed above are five grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Harvey KIMMEL and Miss Emma KIMMEL, Somerset, Pa.; Mrs. Rebekah FRIEDLINE, Sipesville, Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth PHILLIPPI, Bucklin, Kan.; G. W. KIMMEL, Hancock, Minn.
"Mrs. FIKE was a member of South Waterloo Church of the Brethren, of which W. H. YODER is pastor.
"The body was taken to the PETERSEN Brothers funeral home.
"Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren in Orange Center, conducted by Rev. J. E. MILLER, Elgin, Ill., assisted by Rev. W. O. TANNREUTHER. Marvin GRADY, Lawrence GRADY, Vernon MILLER, Kenneth KNOP, Donald HAMER and Glenn BRONSON will act as bearers. Burial will be in the Orange cemetery." --The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Mon., 04 May 1936.
"Resident 57 Years; Husband and Four Children at Her Bedside."
"Mrs. Samuel FIKE, 78, for 57 years a resident of Orange township, and active in the Church of the Brethren, of which she had been a member since girlhood, died at 2:45 a.m. Monday at her home in Orange Center after an illness of three weeks of embolism and complications.
"Surrounding her bedside when the end came were her husband and her son and three daughters--Lloyd K. FIKE, Empire, Cal.; Mrs. Elizabeth FORNEY, Stockton, Cal.; Mrs. Lulu HARTZEL, at home, and Mrs. Stella HARBAUGH, Orange township.
"Also Foster Son."
"Harry PURDY, 229 Oak Lawn avenue, was reared in the FIKE home an always treated as a member of the family. The kindness shown to him causes him to mourn Mrs. FIKE's death as deeply as tho she were his real mother.
"Sarah KIMMEL, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (MILLER) KIMMEL, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Somerset county Pennsylvania. In 1879, when she was 21 years old, Sarah KIMMEL moved to Orange township, On Feb. 22, 1882, she was married to Samuel FIKE in Waterloo by the late Rev. Jacob A. MURRAY, a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
"Mr. and Mrs. FIKE celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary last Washington's birthday.
"Five Brothers, Sisters."
"Surviving besides he husband, son and daughters listed above are five grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Harvey KIMMEL and Miss Emma KIMMEL, Somerset, Pa.; Mrs. Rebekah FRIEDLINE, Sipesville, Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth PHILLIPPI, Bucklin, Kan.; G. W. KIMMEL, Hancock, Minn.
"Mrs. FIKE was a member of South Waterloo Church of the Brethren, of which W. H. YODER is pastor.
"The body was taken to the PETERSEN Brothers funeral home.
"Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren in Orange Center, conducted by Rev. J. E. MILLER, Elgin, Ill., assisted by Rev. W. O. TANNREUTHER. Marvin GRADY, Lawrence GRADY, Vernon MILLER, Kenneth KNOP, Donald HAMER and Glenn BRONSON will act as bearers. Burial will be in the Orange cemetery." --The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Mon., 04 May 1936.
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