Mackelburger, David Theodore (1913-1968)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1968 Dec 26 p. 11

Birth date: 1913 Nov 25

text of obituary:

DAVID T. MACKELBURGER

David Theodore Mackelburger, 4158 S. Grant, Denver, Colo., died of a heart attack on Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. in the midst of heavy traffic on one of Denver's busy streets.

Apparently, when he died his foot pressed down on the gas pedal causing the car to speed ahead uncontrolled, hitting a parked car, jumping the curb, mowing down three parking meters, and hitting two more parked cars before it finally came to a stop. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Ted had served for several years as policeman in the area where he died.

The deceased was born at Omaha, Neb. on Nov. 25, 1913. He was married to Margaret Fast on March 9, 1934, at Yuma, Colo. During his later years he worked for a wholesale food company in Denver.

The funeral services, with the Rev. Dan Friesen officiating, were held in the Garden Park Mennonite Brethren Church in Denver at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, 1968, where he was a member. Interment was in the Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.

Left behind to mourn their husband and father's early death are his wife Margaret; four sons, John, Samuel, Harry and Allen, all of Denver; two daughters-in-law, JoAnn, Mrs. Samuel Mackelburger, and Patricia Ann, Mrs. Harry Mackelburger; and two grandchildren.

Also surviving is his mother, Mrs. John Mackelburger, who has lived with the Ted Mackelburgers in Denver since her husband's death in 1957. She now is 84, the youngest and the only remaining child of Cornelius Toews who came from Russia to Henderson, Neb. in 1877, moved together with several other sturdy Mennonite pioneers in 1893 to Bovina, Colo., and in 1903 to Joes, Colo. where he died in 1919.