CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JOHN BECKER

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John Becker Dies Sunday

Had Been Resident of County 85 Years
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FORDYCE - Funeral services were held at St. John the Baptist Catholic 
church here [Fordyce] Tuesday morning for John M. Becker, 86, who died at his 
home February 28 [1954].  He had been seriously ill about four months.

Rev. C.J. Kaup officiated at the requiem mass and burial was in the 
church cemetery under direction of Wintz Mortuary of Hartington.  
Pallbearers were Tom Meyer, Harold Dendinger, Bill Becker, Julius 
Becker, Roland Eickhoff and Howard Glasser.

Mr. Becker is survived by his wife, Anna; five daughters, Mrs. William 
Dresden, Mrs. Martin Eickhoff and Mrs. William Raduechel, all of 
Hartington; Mrs. A. Jalbert of Astoria, Ore., and Mary of Fordyce; and 
three sons, Adolph of Seattle, Wash., Gerald of Niobrara, and Richard 
of Casablanca, Morocco.

The son of Mathias and Barbara Becker, John was born in Theis, Germany, 
May 3, 1867.  He came to the United States and Cedar county when he was 
a year old.  He followed the occupation of farming.  Mr. Becker was 
married in Hartington January 30, 1906 to Anna Meyer.


MARCH 1954 - CEDAR COUNTY NEWS