Schneck, Edwin (1880-1930)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1930 Apr 2 p. 1

Birth date: 1880

text of obituary:

BODY OF FORMER BERNE CITIZEN FOUND ELEVEN WEEKS AFTER DROWNING

Berne, Ind., March 28 — Exactly eleven weeks after Edwin Schneck, 50, well known former Berne man, fell iton [sic] the Chicago river in Chicago, his body was recovered Thursday evening at 5:10 o'clock nearly on the same spot where he disappeared, according to information received here last evening by his stepmother, Mrs. Abraham Schneck, and by his halfsister, Mrs. Ralph Stager.

For more than twenty years before his death, Mr. Schneck was a member of a fire department on a fire boat and those who found his body floating on the cold water of the Chicago river are his former fellow firemen. He was immediately recognized as the long missing member of their crew and his widow and daughter were immediately notified, who in turn at once sent word to his brother, Albert Schneck at Ft. Wayne and to relatives here.