CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF FRANK NOECKER ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== CEDAR COUNTY NEWS - APRIL 7, 1938 FRANK NOECKER, 73, BURIED WEDNESDAY PIONEER RESIDENT DIES AT HOME NEAR CROFTON SATURDAY Crofton - Frank Noecker, who came to Cedar county in 1870, 78, died Saturday evening at his farm home two miles south of Crofton. He had been suffering with a cold the past two weeks and Friday was stricken with a heart attack but rallied. Saturday evening he became suddenly worse and passed away. Frank Noecker was born in August 1864, at Westphalia, Germany. In 1870 his parents came to America locating in Cedar county near Bow Valley where they homesteaded. Mr. Noecker was reared and educated in Cedar county, following a vocation in farming. On April 23, 1885 he married Matilda Arens at Bow Valley. After farming in Cedar County two years, Mr. and Mrs. Noecker moved to Knox county, purchasing a farm four miles south of Crofton and living there until 1912, when they sold the farm, and the family moved to Harrold, SD., to improve land owned there. Returning in the fall of 1913, Mr. Noecker erected a modern home in the south part of Crofton, living there until the spring of 1915, when they purchased a farm two miles south of Crofton, making their residence there ever since. Mr. Noecker was among the honorable citizens and sturdy pioneers who laid the foundation of northeast Nebraska. Surviving are the widow; five sons, J.F. Noecker, Bloomfield, William Noecker, Hartington, Frank Noecker, Jr., Rapid City, SD, and Albert and Zeno Noecker of Crofton, Mrs. L.A. Stokes of Council Bluffs, IA., who arrived Sunday and Mrs. Amos Thompson of Bloomfield. There are also 32 grand-children and one great grandchild. Mr. and Mrs. Noecker celebrated their golden anniversary on April 23, 1935. Funeral services were Wednesday morning at 9:30 at the St. Rose Catholic Church in Crofton. Burial was in the church cemetery.