Notes
Note for: Rhodney Charles Becker, 29 AUG 1902 - 1 APR 1981 Index
Burial:
Place: St John's Cemetery, Logan, Phillips Co., KS
Individual note:
Rhodney Charles Becker passes away April 1, 1981 at the age of 78 years,
seven months and three days. He was born August 29, 1902 on the farm
north of Logan which he later purchased from his parents, Mr. & Mrs. John
W. Becker in 1941.
He attended Valley Grove school and at an early age, quit school to help
his father farm.
On September 28, 1927 he was united in marriage to Lucille Jaenicke in
the St. John's Catholic Church, Logan, with Rev. F. G. Riedel
officiating. Following the marriage they lived on a farm south of Logan,
later a farm north of Logan and then to the home place where Rhodney
lived until February 18,1979 due to ill health.
He then lived with his son, Paul and wife Loretta until 1981 when he
moved to the Logan Manor.
Surviving are his sons: Jerome & wife Ruth of Beaver City, NE; Paul &
wife Loretta; Robert & wife Mary; Ronald & wife Kay; Clifford & wife
Darlene all of Logan, eighteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Also surviving are his four sisters; Thelma Temple, Frances Watson,
Pauline Becker, of Boulder, CO and Maxine Lawson of Lakewood, CO.
Notes
Note for: Ruth Agnes Lynch, 11 JAN 1934 - 19 OCT 1999 Index
Burial:
Place: St. John's Catholic Cemetery Logan KS
Individual note:
Mary Florence Lynch and Ruth Agnes Lynch were sisters that married
brothers.
Notes
Note for: Clara Mae Reynolds, 20 MAY 1885 - 25 JUL 1962 Index
Burial:
Place: Pleasantview Cemetery, Logan, Phillips Co., KS
Individual note:
1910 Census Belmont Twp., Phillips CO., KS
William J. age 28 b. NE
Clara M. age 24 b. MO
Nellie age 4
Ida M. age 2
Ollie age 9/12
Clara Mae Lafferty, daughter of Frank and Sarah Reynolds, was born May
20, 1885, and passed away suddenly at her Logan home July 26, 1962 aged
seventy-seven years two months and six days.
She and the late Wm. Lafferty were married August 21, 1905 and
established their home on a farm near Logan, They devoted their untiring
efforts to make this a happy place for the four daughters and one son who
were proud to call it "home." Sorrow also entered this home in the death
of two infant children. They were never too busy to share joyful events
with friends and neighbors and were as ready to aid these friends when
their help was needed.
Some twenty years ago they retired to Logan. On April 2, 194? Clara was
baptized into the Episcopal faith. The partnership of fifty-one years
was broken by the death of her husband in Sept. of 1956. Since that time
she has continued to devote herself to her family and friends and greatly
enjoyed the visits she made to their homes.
She was an active member of several social groups.
Immediate survivors are her daughters, Mrs. Nellie Kern, Stockton, Mrs
Wm. (Ida) R. Dye, Long Beach, CA, Mrs. Boyd (Ollie) Vose, Stockton, Mrs
Dan (Sadie) Cole, Los Angeles, CA, and her son, Mr. Willis Lafferty,
Logan, KS and eighteen grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren. Also
surviving are her sisters, Mrs. Effie Baxter, Couer D'Alene, Idaho, Mrs.
Mabel Marvin, Billings, Montana and a brother Wm. Reynolds, Logan, KS.
Notes
Note for: Veona Kay Franz, 26 JAN 1938 - 13 JAN 2002 Index
Burial:
Place: St. Johns Cemetery, Logan, Phillips Co., KS
Notes
Note for: Richard Julius I Jaenicke, 20 FEB 1843 - 19 FEB 1909 Index
Burial:
Place: St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Wolf Creek, Beaver Twp., Phillips Co., KS
Individual note:
R. J. Jaenicke married Amalie Auguste Schoepel in February 1867,
Geithain, Saxony, Germany. They emigrated to Oshkosh, WI in March of
1867. Her brother, Louis, had first emigrated there in 1866. It is
unconfirmed whether both men were tanners when they emigrated. However,
they both worked in a tannery in WI., R. J. was listed in the Oshkosh
directory as a clerk. Louis Schoepel and brother Robert eventually
purchased the tannery and it was known as "Schoepel's Tannery."
R. J. and Amalie moved to Wolf Creek TWP. Logan, KS in 1882 where Richard
farmed.
Family stories tell of Richard coming home from Logan carrying hides on
his wagon. Wolves were plentiful in those days and would follow him on
his trip.
This is the index of the earliest Naturalization papers of Rooks County,
Kansas.
These were sometimes called the second papers. The book containing these
papers
is located at the Frank Walker Museum in Stockton, Kansas. Copyright
1999.
332 JAENICKE, Richard Saxony 15 Mar 1882
"The Phillipsburg Dispatch" Vol. 13 No. 18 Thur Jan 5, 1899
The Republican County Central Committee:
Beaver- R. Jaenicke, Logan
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Trinity Lutheran Church was started by members of the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod one fourth mile west of Stuttgart in 1900. Some of
the charter members were: Michael Bach, John Dirheff, Geo. Balbach,
Herman Bohl, George Dill, August H. Dusin, Leo. Gackstatter, Martin
Herman, Geo. Hofman, Richard Jaenicke, W. Closterman, Herman Kraus, Henry
Manz, Charles Miller, Aug. Nierman, Geo. Pflieger, Raeckter, Emeck,
Stuetzenhofaker, Leonard Stepper, Carl Hanke, Conrad Veh, Martin Wittig,
Fredrick Veeh, Fredrick Wagner, and Michael Wagner. In 1945 it was
disbanded with most members going to the new mission congregation, First
Lutheran in Phillipsburg. Many transferred to Emmanuel Lutheran of
Stuttgart as well as to other Lutheran churches.
Friday, Feb. 19, 1909 will long be remembered by all of us who witnessed
the last rites and honors paid all that was mortal of the pioneer of Wolf
Creek, Richard Jaenicke.
The funeral was conducted by Pastor Bunge in the solemn and impressive
services of the Lutheran church of which Mr. Jaenicke had been a life
long member. The services deserve more that a passing notice and if
space would permit we would like to describe the same more fully. We
cannot refrain however, from saying that the same was one of the most
beautiful and consoling it has ever been our fortune to listen to. It
was full of hope and consolation while the singing was a revelation to
those who had not attended the services in that little chapel for
sometime. The sweet voices of sturdy young manhood and womanhood blending
together in perfect harmony in praises of Him who doeth all things well
and the rendering of "Home Sweet Home" in German, but the children were
especially impressive. We had never heard that beautiful old song that
will ever remain new, sung at a funeral, but nothing could have been more
appropriate.
We had laid to rest all that was mortal of husband, father and friend to
that last home which is the lot of all mankind, while his spirit had gone
to that Heavenly Home Sweet Home, "That House Not Made With Hands Eternal
in the Heavens."
Richard Jaenicke was born in Saxony, Germany in 1843 and settled on Wolf
Creek in 1872. The writer came to Logan at about the same time. We had
therefore known each other for about thirty-six long years and in all
that time, we have never known him to do a dishonest act or to have ever
had an enemy. In the thirty-six years there were times that tried men's
souls. The fight was often hard, but friend Jaenicke, though never a
robust man, never wavered and as to fitting, he was rewarded by a
plentiful supply of this world's goods which gave him the consolation of
leaving those near and dear to him free from want; yet it is in his
family relations that Richard Jaenicke was especially fortunate. He had
the satisfaction of seeing his little flock grow up to be counted among
the most respected and progressive citizens of which any parent could be
proud.
The great assembly of friends, perhaps the largest ever seen here bore
witness to the general esteem for which the departed was held, and so we
laid him to rest, that rest which on account of his suffering he had
often prayed for, never forgetting the consolation that what was our loss
was his gain.
He leaves to mourn his loss, a widow, six children and scores of
friends. The children are: Mrs. Emma Fischli, Mrs. John Veeh, Amalie,
Amiel sp (Emil), Richard, and Robert Jaenicke, all of whom were present
at the funeral.
*"The Logan Republican"