Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Obituary of Charles Umiker

Charles "Charlie" Umiker, 67, of 128 Beacon Hill Drive, died Jan 4, 1984 in a local nursing home. Born Aug. 11, 1916, at Castle Rock, Umiker was a lifelong area resident.
He was a retired dairy farmer.
Surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. Verl Cunningham of Castle Rock and Mrs. Margaret Sowders of Portland; a brother, Abraham Umiker of Castle Rock; and several nieces and nephews including Mrs. Lois Wilbur, Jerry Larson, Terry Larson, and Tom Cunningham, all of Castle Rock.
Services were today at Hubbard Funeral Home, Castle Rock, with the Rev. George Hanke officiating. Interment followed at Whittle-Hubbard Cemetery

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi--I found your page on google. I was surprised to find another Charles Umiker out there, though it looks as if we only overlapped for three years. I didn't know about the west coast Umikers--our branch came to New York state from Switzerland around 1912. I wonder if we can figure out the common ancestor...

Kent and TerriLyn said...

Thank you for commenting. You must have had a bit of a Mark Twain moment when you saw the title of the post! (Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!) Sharron Umiker has done a lot of research on the eastern branch of the Umiker family. We meet up at "Jakob Umiker" b abt 1756 and "Mrs. Jakob Umiker" b abt 1759. As far as we know they had two sons, Abraham and Ludwig. Abraham's great-grandson settled in New York. Ludwig's grandson came from Switzerland and died in Washington state.