Samuel Lock
| Date of Interment or Death | 06/25/1967 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | C |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 5-6-3s |
Obituary
Samuel M. Lock Dies; Rites At Bethel Lutheran
Samuel M. Lock, 74, of Wahpeton died Friday at St. Francis Hospital where he had been a patient for the past two years.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Lutheran Church with Rev. Marvin L. Hartmann officiating. Organist will be Mrs. Vernon Hektner and Lyle Jacobson will be the vocalist. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery with graveside rites conducted y Hafner-Miller-Ross American Legion Post No. 20 of Wahpeton.
Visitation will be held at Vertin’s-Wahpeton Funeral Home Monday afternoon and evening and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church.
Mr. Lock was born Feb. 14, 1893 at Waverly, Minn., the son of Frank and Julia Lock. He was raised at Delano, Minn., and attended schools there. He came to Wahpeton in 1914 where he began work at the
Globe Gazette where he was employed until his retirement in 1959. He served in the Army during World War II in France and England and was a member of Co. I and the American Legion at Wahpeton. He married Martha Oren Aug. 16, 1922 at Sioux Falls, S. D. She died March 7, 1931. He was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church.
Surviving is one daughter, Miss Marion Lock of San Francisco, Calif.
Honorary pallbearers will be Joe Gilgenbach, Mel Sherva, Frank Karst and John Jacobchick. Active pallbearers will be B. P. McCusker, Garnett Marks, Mathew E. Braun, Charles Dahlgren, Kirk Bale and Blake Sherva.
LOCK, SAM MATHEW. Army number 87,245; registrant Richland county; born Waverly, Minn., Feb. 14, 1893, of German-Polish parents; occupation, printer; enlisted in Company I, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Wahpeton, on June 21, 1916; called into federal service on June 21, 1916, for Mexican border duty and served there until discharge; discharged from federal service at Fort Snelling, Minn., on Feb. 14, 1917, and resumed National Guard status; called into federal service, World War, on July 15, 1917; served in Company I, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company I, 164th Infantry), to July 15, 1918; Company I, Service Battalion, Army Schools, AEF, to Oct. 2, 1918; Company I, Service Battalion, AEF, University, to June 7, 1919; St. Aignan Casual Company No. 6440, to discharge. Grades: Corporal, June 7, 1917; Sergeant, Nov. 24, 1917; Supply Sergeant, Oct. 7, 1917; Sergeant, March 3, 1919; oversees from Dec. 15, 1917, to July 7, 1919. Discharged at Mitchel Field, N. Y., on July 14, 1919, as a Sergeant.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.