Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1909 — TONY STRICKFADED DIED AT LAFAYETTE SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

TONY STRICKFADED DIED AT LAFAYETTE SUNDAY.

Suffered For Months Before End Came—Will Be Buried Here Tuesday Morning. Tony Strickfaden, a former resident of Rensselaer, died at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock. The cause of his death was locomotor ataxia. He had been an inmate of the hospital for eight months and for the last three months he had been bedfast and had sufiered untold agony. Before his sickness he weighed 210 pounds, but at his death he weighed less than a hundred pounds. During his sickness he became blind in one eye. He was born at Yorkville, Dearborn county, Ind., and was 43 years of age at the time of his death. He leaves two brothers, George A. Strickfaden, of Lafayette; and Mike Strickfaden, of Memphis, Tenn., and three sisters, Mrs. Katie Huberty and Ida Gross, of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Clara Dell, of Carthage, O. He was never married. He left Rensselaer about five years ago and located in Monon, where his health broke down, and since then he spent his time at different places in hopes of regaining his health. The funeral will be held at the St. Augustine Catholic church in Rensselaer Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. Burial will take place at the Catholic cemetery south of town.