WALTER F. WADE

STROKE FATAL TO W.F. WADE ON SATURDAY
Never Regains Consciousness After Being Stricken As He Attends Theater
Performance
Walter F. Wade, 57, widely known insurance representative and former office
manager of the American Seating company here, died shortly before 11 o’clock
Saturday night without regaining consciousness after suffering a stroke in
a downtown theatre he was attending with his wife. Death occurred at the Holy
Family hospital where the stricken man was removed in the ambulance.
Mr. Wade was a resident of this city for over 30 years, coming to Manitowoc
in 1899 to accept a position as a shipping clerk in the Manitowoc Seating
company. He was subsequently given several promotions and when the local
company affiliated with the national organization he became the manager in
charge of the office. He left the company about a year before the plant was
removed to Grand Rapids and later engaged in the insurance business as a
representative of the New York Life Insurance company. He also served as a
member of the election board of the Seventh ward for many years.
After attending the schools at Fond du Lac where he was born, Mr. Wade entered
the dental offices of his father and later enrolled in the college of dentistry
of Northwestern University. He did not complete his course there and came to
this city to accept a position.
He was married on Sept. 25, 1902 to Anna Trastek who with two children, Mrs.
Vernon Houghton of Madison; a son, Gail, of Manitowoc, and two brothers,
Edward H. Wade, of Berwyn, Ill., and Robert C. Wade of Chicago survive him.
His only fraternal affiliation was with the Royal Arcanum.
Funeral Tuesday
Funeral services will be held from the home at Sixteenth and Hamilton streets
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. William F. Hood of the St. James
Episcopal church officiating. Interment will take place at Evergreen. The body
was taken to the home this afternoon from the Pfeffer mortuary.
Manitowoc Herald News, November 2, 1931 P. 2
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E. H. Wade is here from Berwyn, Ill., called by the death of his brother Walter
Wade, stricken Saturday night. Mr. Wade was a former resident of this city and
for several years engaged in the newspaper business in Manitowoc, having been
with the old Tribune and with the Lake Shore Times and under management of the
late Harry Kress.
Manitowoc Herald News, November 2, 1931 P. 3
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[bur. 11-3-1931/age 57 yrs/cause: apoplexy/bur. on Anna Wade lot]