Charles Agustus Haacke, 80, died Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at his home in Woods Cross of causes incident to age.
A resident of Woods Cross the past 35 years, he was a retired machinist. He had worked at Salt Lake City for the Silver Bros. Iron Works and had been foreman of Lethbridge Iron Works at Alberta, Canada. Later he had been employed by the Wasatch Oil Co. until his retiremen in 1940.
He was born Nov. 2, 1865, in Riga, Russia, a son of Karl Fredrick Henrich and Mathilda Schmidt Haacke. At the age of 17 in Germany he was converted to the LDS church and came to the United States. He arrived in New York on Feb, 8, 1885, and in Evanston, Wyoming, in June of that year. He married in the Logan LDS temple July 6, 1887, to Hedwig Louise Grellert.
Mr. Haacke has been an active church worker, and was a High Priest in the South Bountiful LDS Ward at the time of his death. He had served as a member of the Bishopric in the Salt Lake Second LDS Ward and also in the South Bountiful Ward. He had assisted in earlier years in the construction of the baptismal font in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
He is survived by his widow and eight sons, Edwin R. Haacke and Stanley G. Haacke, Woods Cross; Orson A. Haacke, Los Angeles, Cal., Herbert E. Haacke, Centerville; Elmer G. Haacke, Blackfoot, Ida,; Leslie K. Haacke, Wilford J. Haacke and Leland P. Haacke, all of Bountiful; 27 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the South Bountiful LDS ward church by W. C. Mills, bishop's counselor.
Burial will be in tghe Bountiful city cemetery under the direction of the Union mortuary.
Buried September 14, 1946.
Charles Agustus Haacke, 80, died Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at his home in Woods Cross of causes incident to age.
A resident of Woods Cross the past 35 years, he was a retired machinist. He had worked at Salt Lake City for the Silver Bros. Iron Works and had been foreman of Lethbridge Iron Works at Alberta, Canada. Later he had been employed by the Wasatch Oil Co. until his retiremen in 1940.
He was born Nov. 2, 1865, in Riga, Russia, a son of Karl Fredrick Henrich and Mathilda Schmidt Haacke. At the age of 17 in Germany he was converted to the LDS church and came to the United States. He arrived in New York on Feb, 8, 1885, and in Evanston, Wyoming, in June of that year. He married in the Logan LDS temple July 6, 1887, to Hedwig Louise Grellert.
Mr. Haacke has been an active church worker, and was a High Priest in the South Bountiful LDS Ward at the time of his death. He had served as a member of the Bishopric in the Salt Lake Second LDS Ward and also in the South Bountiful Ward. He had assisted in earlier years in the construction of the baptismal font in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
He is survived by his widow and eight sons, Edwin R. Haacke and Stanley G. Haacke, Woods Cross; Orson A. Haacke, Los Angeles, Cal., Herbert E. Haacke, Centerville; Elmer G. Haacke, Blackfoot, Ida,; Leslie K. Haacke, Wilford J. Haacke and Leland P. Haacke, all of Bountiful; 27 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the South Bountiful LDS ward church by W. C. Mills, bishop's counselor.
Burial will be in tghe Bountiful city cemetery under the direction of the Union mortuary.
Buried September 14, 1946.
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