Weeks, E. C. Dr. 1844 - 1904

WEEKS, BARRETT, SUTHERLAND

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/23/2023 at 12:49:07

PROMIMENT CITIZEN DIED.
Dr. E. C. Weeks Passed Away Yesterday Morning at His Home in This City.
Although not unexpected the announcement yesterday morning that the hand of death had closed the eyes of D. R. C. Weeks to earthly scenes caused a pang of sorrow to pass over the entire community. He had been a sufferer for many months with cancer of the stomach, and everything within human power was done for his relief but without avail. He bore his suffering with great patience and fortitude until the death angel came to release him.
We are without data regarding his life further than what we have learned in our few years acquaintance with him. He was a man who inspired the confidence and sought and retained the good will of all who came in contact with him. He came to Nashua something over thirty years ago and began the practice of dentistry in which he continued until recent years. His proficiency in his profession brought him a large practice and acquaintanceship throughout northeast Iowa, and there is probably no more widely known man in Nashua today than was Dr. Weeks. A man of keen intellect and extreme conservatism he was a prominent figure in all public affairs and his opinion, when expressed carried much weight with it. He has been twice mayor of Nashua—in 1890 and in 1903—and has been at different times a member of the school board and city council, and always took an active part in anything pertaining to the city’s welfare. He was also a prominent Mason, at the time of his death being Master of Bradford Lodge, No. 129. He leaves to mourn a wife and six children—Harry, of Chicago, Mrs. W. M. Barrett, of Chicago, and Hattie, Alice, Lelie, Mrs. Earl Sutherland and Irving, of Nashua. At the time of going to press arrangements for the funeral had not been completed.

Source Unknown – probably local newspaper

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born in 1844 and died Nov. 2, 1904. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.