Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Rieck, Captain H. W., 1938
Saturday, December 16, 2000

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  Captain H. W. Rieck, 49, prominent Kimble county ranchman and long a
leader in the ranching industry of the Southwest, died in Santa Rosa
Hospital at San Antonio late Tuesday following an attack of pneumonia and
meningitis.  He had been ill since the San Antonio convention early in
this month of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers' Association of which he
was a member of the executive committee.
  Funeral services were held in San Antonio Wednesday evening, and final
rites were held at 10:30 o'clock this morning at the Junction Methodist
Church, with the Rev. J. T. McCan, of Brady, minister of the Episcopal
Church, officiating, assisted by Rev. Ennis B. Hill, pastor of the Junction
Methodist Church.
  Members of the Burt Fleming Post of the American Legion honored their
fallen comrade with military services this morning.
  Captain Rieck is survived by the widow, Mrs. Meta Bruce Paterson Rieck,
two sons, James 17, and Hugh William, 14; a daughter, Margaret Ann, 11;
two brothers, A. S. Rieck, San Angelo, and Urban Rieck, Cape Girardeau, Mo.;
a sister, Miss Freida Rieck, and the mother, Mrs. F. W. Rieck, both of Cape
Girardeau.
  The Kimble ranchman operated a 30,000 acre ranch near Roosevelt in the
Texas Hill County and was active in its affairs as well as affairs of
livestock associations of Kimble county and Texas.  He also owned the Kimble
Courts at Junction, a popular summer vacation resort.  Captain Reick was an
ardent supporter of the Hill Country as a summer resort and had spent much
time promoting this section. 
  Born in St. James, Mo., June 9, 1889, Rieck spent his early years in the
railroad business, being employed by the Frisco.  He was educated in
Missouri.  He came to Texas in 1911, locating at Crystal Springs, where he
advanced rapidly in the railroad business until 1917 when he resigned to
enter an officer's training school at Leon Springs.  Commissioned a 
captain, he went overseas with the Ninetieth Division in June 1918.  He was
in three major battles and was once wounded.
  After the armistice he was a member of the Inter-Allied Railroad
Commission and was stationed in Germany.  Receiving honorable discharge
in 1919, he returned to Texas taking over the management of the Paterson
Ranch as a partner with Mrs. James Paterson, mother of his wife.  He had
married Meta Bruce Paterson April 6, 1918, in San Antonio.