Date : 19 Jun 1939
Location : Calvary Cemetery, Waterloo, IA
Funeral services for Edward E. Martin, former Wangler drug store employe who died at 4:30 p. m. Friday at his home, 321 Second street east, will be at 9 a. m. Monday in St. Joseph's Catholic church. Requiem high mass will be said by Rev. Edmund Cooney, assistant pastor. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
Mr. Martin, who was 61 years old, died of heart attack he had suffered earlier in the day. He had been subject to attacks of the disease for the past seven years.
Mr. Martin had resided in Black Hawk county for more than 40 years, and was a member of the Wangler Drug store's sales staff for 26 years prior to the closing of the store several years ago. He since had been a taproom manager.
In his many years in the down town district, Mr. Martin had acquired a wide acquaintance in Waterloo and northeast Iowa.
Born July 31, 1877, near Lansing, Ia., he came to Cedar Falls as a youth, with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Martin. German immigrants who had been successful farmers at Lansing.
Mr. Martin married Miss Grace Thompson of Waterloo on Jan. 7, 1917, in a ceremony performed in St. Mary's Catholic church by Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, now bishop of the Davenport diocese.
Mr. Martin was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic church.
Surviving besides the widow are two daughters, Helen Grace and Fonda Mae Martin, both at home; two brothers, John, Cedar Falls, Ia., and William, Ontario, Cal., and three sisters, Mrs. Chris Schild, Cedar Falls; Mrs. John Puls, Long Beach, Cal., and Mrs. Sarah Kratz, Decorah, Ia.
The body will be taken from the O'Keefe & Towne funeral home to the family residence at 2 p. m. today. St. Joseph's Young People's sodality and the Our Lady of Victory alumni will meet at the residence to recite the rosary at 2:30 p. m.; the St. Joseph's Rosary society at 8 p. m. and the Catholic Daughters of America at 8:30 p. m.
Waterloo Courier - Jun 18, 1939
