Bedford Free Press, Thursday March 11, 1897 [p. 1]
DEATH OF GEO. Houck.
A Noted Music Teacher And A Respected Citizen, He Died Regretted by All Who Knew Him.
Again has the grim reaper visited the community and taken from us one whom we all loved and respected.
Geo. W. [ashington] Houck [Houk], aged 30 years, 6 months and 23 days, died at 2 o'clock a. m., Friday March 5, 1897.
This is one of the saddest deaths it has yet been ours to record. Seemingly in the flush of a vigorous and useful young manhood, with a wife [Lillie Maude Hinshaw] and four little ones entirely dependent upon his earnings, the deceased was stricken down very suddenly. He was a music teacher by profession and it was while he was conducting a class in vocal music at the High Prairie church on Wednesday evening that he was seized with the fatal illness. Just after closing his class, Mr. Houck [Houk] was taken with a severe attack of congestion of the stomach. Members of the class assisted him to a house near the church, and hastily summonsed a physician, but he gradually grew worse, lingering in great agony until Friday morning when the gentle spirit took its flight to join the heavenly choir.
Funeral services were held at the First Christian church, at 3 o'clock p. m., Saturday, Feb. 6, conducted by Rev. H. Siberell assisted by Rev. J.C. Lewis. The church was filled to overflowing with those who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. After the services of the church were concluded the remains were interred at Fairview.
Geo. Houck [Houk] is dead, but his memory will be revered by all who knew him; by his neighbors, who ever found him a kind, sociable friend disposed to do the right; by the churches and civic and social societies, that have depended so largely upon him in furnishing the musical part of their programs at public events. But more than all, he will be missed by his family to whom he was all that a husband and father should be, kind and considerate.
DEATH OF GEO. Houck.
A Noted Music Teacher And A Respected Citizen, He Died Regretted by All Who Knew Him.
Again has the grim reaper visited the community and taken from us one whom we all loved and respected.
Geo. W. [ashington] Houck [Houk], aged 30 years, 6 months and 23 days, died at 2 o'clock a. m., Friday March 5, 1897.
This is one of the saddest deaths it has yet been ours to record. Seemingly in the flush of a vigorous and useful young manhood, with a wife [Lillie Maude Hinshaw] and four little ones entirely dependent upon his earnings, the deceased was stricken down very suddenly. He was a music teacher by profession and it was while he was conducting a class in vocal music at the High Prairie church on Wednesday evening that he was seized with the fatal illness. Just after closing his class, Mr. Houck [Houk] was taken with a severe attack of congestion of the stomach. Members of the class assisted him to a house near the church, and hastily summonsed a physician, but he gradually grew worse, lingering in great agony until Friday morning when the gentle spirit took its flight to join the heavenly choir.
Funeral services were held at the First Christian church, at 3 o'clock p. m., Saturday, Feb. 6, conducted by Rev. H. Siberell assisted by Rev. J.C. Lewis. The church was filled to overflowing with those who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. After the services of the church were concluded the remains were interred at Fairview.
Geo. Houck [Houk] is dead, but his memory will be revered by all who knew him; by his neighbors, who ever found him a kind, sociable friend disposed to do the right; by the churches and civic and social societies, that have depended so largely upon him in furnishing the musical part of their programs at public events. But more than all, he will be missed by his family to whom he was all that a husband and father should be, kind and considerate.
Bedford Free Press, Thursday March 11, 1897 [p. 1]
DEATH OF GEO. Houck.
A Noted Music Teacher And A Respected Citizen, He Died Regretted by All Who Knew Him.
Again has the grim reaper visited the community and taken from us one whom we all loved and respected.
Geo. W. [ashington] Houck [Houk], aged 30 years, 6 months and 23 days, died at 2 o'clock a. m., Friday March 5, 1897.
This is one of the saddest deaths it has yet been ours to record. Seemingly in the flush of a vigorous and useful young manhood, with a wife [Lillie Maude Hinshaw] and four little ones entirely dependent upon his earnings, the deceased was stricken down very suddenly. He was a music teacher by profession and it was while he was conducting a class in vocal music at the High Prairie church on Wednesday evening that he was seized with the fatal illness. Just after closing his class, Mr. Houck [Houk] was taken with a severe attack of congestion of the stomach. Members of the class assisted him to a house near the church, and hastily summonsed a physician, but he gradually grew worse, lingering in great agony until Friday morning when the gentle spirit took its flight to join the heavenly choir.
Funeral services were held at the First Christian church, at 3 o'clock p. m., Saturday, Feb. 6, conducted by Rev. H. Siberell assisted by Rev. J.C. Lewis. The church was filled to overflowing with those who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. After the services of the church were concluded the remains were interred at Fairview.
Geo. Houck [Houk] is dead, but his memory will be revered by all who knew him; by his neighbors, who ever found him a kind, sociable friend disposed to do the right; by the churches and civic and social societies, that have depended so largely upon him in furnishing the musical part of their programs at public events. But more than all, he will be missed by his family to whom he was all that a husband and father should be, kind and considerate.
DEATH OF GEO. Houck.
A Noted Music Teacher And A Respected Citizen, He Died Regretted by All Who Knew Him.
Again has the grim reaper visited the community and taken from us one whom we all loved and respected.
Geo. W. [ashington] Houck [Houk], aged 30 years, 6 months and 23 days, died at 2 o'clock a. m., Friday March 5, 1897.
This is one of the saddest deaths it has yet been ours to record. Seemingly in the flush of a vigorous and useful young manhood, with a wife [Lillie Maude Hinshaw] and four little ones entirely dependent upon his earnings, the deceased was stricken down very suddenly. He was a music teacher by profession and it was while he was conducting a class in vocal music at the High Prairie church on Wednesday evening that he was seized with the fatal illness. Just after closing his class, Mr. Houck [Houk] was taken with a severe attack of congestion of the stomach. Members of the class assisted him to a house near the church, and hastily summonsed a physician, but he gradually grew worse, lingering in great agony until Friday morning when the gentle spirit took its flight to join the heavenly choir.
Funeral services were held at the First Christian church, at 3 o'clock p. m., Saturday, Feb. 6, conducted by Rev. H. Siberell assisted by Rev. J.C. Lewis. The church was filled to overflowing with those who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. After the services of the church were concluded the remains were interred at Fairview.
Geo. Houck [Houk] is dead, but his memory will be revered by all who knew him; by his neighbors, who ever found him a kind, sociable friend disposed to do the right; by the churches and civic and social societies, that have depended so largely upon him in furnishing the musical part of their programs at public events. But more than all, he will be missed by his family to whom he was all that a husband and father should be, kind and considerate.
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