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Elmer Claud Adcock
Born -
Tuesday, January 2, 1906
Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska
Married
- Tuesday, July 2, 1935
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,
Missouri
Shenandoah, Iowa
Buried
- Rose Hill Cemetery
Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa
98 Years 3 Months 6
Days
Cook on a River Boat on the
Missouri River
Elmer C. Adcock
Elmer C.
Adcock, the fourth of eleven children born to Joseph Lee and Minnie J.
(Combs) Adcock was born January 2, 1906, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, and passed
away April 8, 2004, in Shenandoah, Iowa, at the age of 98 years.
After living for a short time at Brock, Nebraska, the family moved to a
Ranch in western Nebraska near Ainsworth, where Elmer received his
education. As a young man in high school he would hire out to neighboring
ranchers working for his board and room in order to have one less mouth to
feed at home. With eight boys in the family it was told that they were for
ever playing practical jokes on each other.
After high school, during the depression, Elmer would seek employment
anywhere he could. From driving a team of horses, breaking horses for the
railroad, building a road in Kansas, working in a bakery in Auburn,
Nebraska, and as a cook on a river boat on the Missouri river, he would
earn as much as 50 cents per day. Elmer would try just about anything.
On July 2, 1935, Elmer was united in marriage to Hilda Bohling in St.
Joseph, Missouri, and to this union; Marvin, Nadine, Linda and Barbara
were born. Elmer was a man with many skills. He worked as a tenant farmer
in several locations in Southeast Nebraska and for a short time as a
carpenter at the Mead Ammunition plant during World War II. After the war,
Elmer returned to farming until 1948 when he decided to earn a living by
driving a truck from coast to coast. He later worked as a school bus
mechanic in Milford, Nebraska, where they lived for several years and then
in Farragut, Iowa, where he retired. After retirement Elmer continued to
be active doing various jobs in the area, including operating his own
greenhouse and a small engine and lawn mower repair shop. Before his
eyesight began to fail, Elmer built a grandfather clock for each of his
children.
Elmer enjoyed camping, fishing, boating, hunting and driving a car. He
would often play cards with his friends at Leisure Hall in Farragut. He
was a former member of the I.O.O.F. and a member of Farragut United
Methodist Church.
Preceding Elmer in death were his parents; brothers, Glen, Joe, Charles,
Clarence, Bill, Ralph, Vernon, and Cecil; and sisters, Helen, Bernice,
Lula and Dollie.
Survivors include Elmer’s wife, Hilda of Farragut; son and
daughter-in-law, Marvin and Jackie Adcock of Shenandoah; daughters and
sons-in-law, Nadine and Phil Fahrlander of Minden, Nebraska, Linda and
Michael Elze of Gainesville, Virginia and Barbara and Kevin Meier of
Indianola, Iowa. Also surviving is a brother, Harold Adcock and wife,
Millie, of Auburn, Nebraska; 10 grandchildren, Don and Dean Adcock, Eric
and Jeff Fahrlander, Patrick and Timothy Elze and Mark, Nick, Jake and
Haleigh Meier; and 8 great grandchildren; plus other relatives and
friends.
Memorials may be directed to the Farragut Fire and Rescue.
A luncheon with the family will follow at Leisure Hall in Farragut, hosted
by the Farragut Methodist Church Women, following interment services in
Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Wife
- Hilda Barbara Auguste (Bohling) Adcock
Hilda B. Adcock
Born - July 3, 1914
Family Home, Near Auburn, Nebraska
Son -
Marvin Leroy Adcock
Born- January 12, 1937
Daughter -
Ruth Nadine (Adcock) Fahrlander
Born - July 11, 1939
Daughter
- Linda Joann (Adcock) Elze
Born - February 12, 1946
Daughter
- Barbara Jean (Adcock) Meier
Born - February 13, 1956
½Sister
- Lula J. (Adcock) Arnold
Born - Sunday, July 29, 1888
½Sister
- Dollie M. (Adcock) Hampton
Born - Sunday, February 6, 1890
½Brother
-
Joseph Quincy Adcock
Born - Saturday, September 3,1892
Brother
-
Charles Monroe Adcock
Born - Sunday, October 9, 1898
Brother -
Lester Clarence Adcock
Born - Wednesday, April 17, 1901
Sister -
Bernice Adcock
Born - Sunday, January 29, 1905
Died - Tuesday, March 21, 1905
Buried - Thursday, March 23, 1905
Tecumseh Cemetery
Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska
Block -183 Lot - 3
1Month 22Days
Brother
- Cecil L. Adcock
Born - Wednesday, September 23, 1903
Brother
- Vernon Richard Adcock
Born - Saturday, May 23, 1908
Brother
- Harold Edwin Adcock
Born - Tuesday, November 2,
1909
Brother
- Glen Adcock
Born - Friday, January 13, 1911
Died - Friday, February 24, 1911
1 Month 9 Days
Brother
- Marion Francis "Bill" Adcock
Born - Monday, May 6, 1912
Brother
- Ralph Adcock
Born - Friday, January 30, 1914
Sister - Helen
Evelyn Adcock
Born - December1916 - Nebraska
Died -1929
Buried -
Tecumseh Cemetery
Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska
Block -183 Lot - 3
Father -
Joseph Lee Adcock
Mother
-
Minerva "Minnie" Jane
(Combs) Adcock
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