This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#139864) HENRY FRED CONRAD GERICKE 1886-1949 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=139864> AUTHOR: Mary Durr DATE: 1/5/2007 at 21:08:10 Surnames: KLING,GERICKE,MEYER,SANDER,SEBASTIAN,MORCH,WAGNER HENRY FRED CONRAD GERICKE 1886-1949 Henry Gericke Interred Friday Funeral services were held Friday afternoon for Henry C. Gericke at the Schutte Funeral Home and at St. Paul's Lutheran Church with Rev. F. R. Ludwig, officiating. Burial was in the Postville cemetery. Mr. Gericke passed away at his farm home five miles northeast of Postville on Tuesday of last week. Henry Fred Conrad Gericke, son of John Gericke and Maria Kling Gericke, was born July 30, 1886, in Clayton County, and departed this life January 18, 1949 at his late home northeast of Postville, aged 62 years. Mr. Gericke was received into active membership in the Lutheran Church, also in the St. Paul's congregation of Postville, by the late Rev. P. E. Bockelmann, on March 31, 1901. Mr. Gericke spent his entire life as a resident of this community. He attended the Cedar Rapids business College in 1903 [could be 1905]. Throughout his entire adult life he farmed the farm in Post township about five miles northeast of Postville where he died. Left to mourn his passing are the following seven brothers and sisters: John, of Postville; Ida, Mrs. Curtis Meyer, of Postville; Fred, of Postville; Amelia, Mrs. Otto Sander, of Postville; Matilda, who made her home with Henry on the farm; Amanda, Mrs. Will Sebastian, of Luana and Senda, Mrs. Ben Morch, of Postville. Mr. Gericke was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Will; and one sister, Bertha, Mrs. Wendell Wagner. Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection. Submitter has no further information.