Watauga County NcArchives Obituaries.....Winkler, Joseph Shelton 1943
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Watauga Democrat
from the Watauga Democrat, Thursday, December 16, 1943, front page

J. S. Winkler Dies Saturday After Short Illness

Prominent Merchant and Farmer Succumbs in Winston-Salem Hospital Saturday

Funeral Services Conducted Monday Afternoon

  Joseph Shelton Winkler, 75 years old, pioneer Boone merchant and farmer, 
died last Saturday at the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, where he had been 
a patient for five days.  An operation which was not of a serious nature was 
performed Friday, and the resultant shock is believed to have been the cause 
of his demise.

   Funeral services were conducted from the Boone Baptist Church Monday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock, where many friends gathered to pay their respects.  
The floral offering was especially large.  Rev. J. C. Canipe, the pastor, 
conducted the rites, and members of Snow Lodge attended in a body and had 
charge of the graveside services.  Interment was in the community cemetery.  
Business houses of the town closed for a half- hour period during the 
services.  Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements.

   Survivors are six sons, Mayor Gordon H. Winkler of Boone; Carl Winkler of 
Durham; Stuart (sic) and Paul Winkler, of Newport News, Va.; Joseph and W. 
Ralph Winkler of Boone; two daughters, Mrs. E. W. Moore, of Portsmouth, Va., 
Mrs. J. T. Davis, of Leaksville.  One brother survives, Mr. W. F. Winkler of 
Valle Crucis; and four sisters; Mrs. W. H. Hardin and Mrs. J. D. Councill of 
Boone; Mrs. I. N. Corpening of Camdenton, Mo., and Mrs. Roby Estes of Alberta, 
Canada.  

                        Born in Boone

   Mr. Winkler was born near the present city limits of the town of Boone, in 
1868 a son of the late Joshua and Mrs. Winkler and had spent practically his 
entire life here.  He was married on June 26, 1895 to Miss Lizzie Horton, who 
succumbed in March 1941.  Prior to his marriage he entered the mercantile 
business near the old home, and was postmaster at Deck Hill, N. C., an office 
long since discontinued.

   Shortly after Mr. Winkler disposed of his first store, he entered the 
mercantile business in Boone, where he was engaged practically continuously as 
a merchant until a few years ago, when he became associated with his son, Mr. 
W. Ralph Winkler, in the automobile business.  During the years Mr. Winkler 
conducted his farm, which a part of the large ancestral plantation.  

   Mr. Winkler became of the Baptist Church in Boone when a young man and for 
a number of years served as a member of the board of deacons.  He had been 
very active in the affairs of his church and had contributed a full share to 
the religious life of his community.  He had been a member of Masonic Lodge 
for many years, and was one of the oldest Masons in this city.  Possessed of a 
fine personality, Mr. Winkler made friends rapidly and was widely know for his 
kindly disposition, his generous tendencies, and his sterling qualities of 
Christian manhood.  He had done a full part toward the building and the 
betterment of his community, which has never boasted of a finer, and more 
upright citizen.

 


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