| Former Owner of Market Dies
Albert F. Speaker Had Lived in Sioux City for 37 Years.
Infirmities brought on by advanced years resulted in death
Sunday for Albert F. Speaker, 1718 West Third street, former proprietor
of a meat market here.
Mr. Speaker died at his home after a lingering illness. He came
to Sioux City in 1891 and had made his home here since. He was 71 years old.
Born in Marshalltown, Ia., October 17, 1856, Mr. Speaker moved to
Mr. Pleasant, Ia., when a boy and lived until he was 35 years, when he
came to Sioux City. He was a charter member of the Improved Order of
Redmen lodge, No. 45, of Sioux City.
Surviving are his widow, four sons, Dr. Mark Speaker and Lee
Speaker, of Mt. Pleasant, Ia.; William, of Huron, S. D., and Grant, of
Sioux City, one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Sundquist, of Sioux City; one
brother, Frank Thorpe, of Early, and three sisters, Mrs. Addie Rennfeldt,
of Holstein, Ia.; Mrs. Mary Snyder, of Early, and Mrs. Dora Sanders, of Nemaha, Ia.
Funeral services for Mr. Speaker will be conducted at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at Anderson's funeral chapel. Rev. C. H. Kamphoefner
will officiate. Interment will be in Floyd cemetery.
(April 1928) |
