Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-03-11 | Page 5 | Funeral to be Held Thursday Evening at 8 O'clock

FUNERAL TO BE HELD THURSDAY EVEN! AT 8 O'CLOCK Funeral services for Jno. Q. Beck, of 437 Twenty-fourth street, for the past tw,o years and who died Monday af-ternoonof af-ternoonof hardening of the arteries, will be held Thursday at Kirkendall undertaking parlors at 8 p. m. The body will be shipped to Red Oak, Iowa, for interment. Mrs. Beck and her sister, Mrs. Martha Corbott or Red Oak, Iowa, who arrived in Ogden yesterday, will accompany the body. The mnny patrons of the boarding house will remember Mr. Beck by his cheery word, his ever present smile, and his constant good nature despite the fact that he had been suffering for the past two years of the disease that finally caused his death. He met his death with a smiling fortitude and did his utmost to lighten the blow to his loved ones. Mr. Beck was born In Madison, Ind., October 21, 184S, and came west when a young man, spending the greater portion of his life in Wyoming, Iowa and Utah. He was one of the pioneer train dispatchers of the west, having entered the services of the Union Pacific in 1869. He was employed for twenty years as the chief operator opera-tor and dispatcher of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, at Burlington Bur-lington and other points in Iowa. He removed from Iowa to a farm In Bear River valley, Utah, and eight years ago, due to his failing health, he removed to Ogden. He was united in marriage to Miss Romanza Ewing at Burlington, Iowa, In 1870.