Henry John S Obit

Henry John Strickert
Son of Frederich Wilhelm Strickert, son of Johann and Christina Strickert.

Pastor Emeritus, Reverend H.J. Strickert was taken in death on March 9 while shoveling snow at his home in Jackson, Missouri where he was living in retirement. Age 75. His last pastorate was at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Jackson (Tilsit), MO where he served from 1926 until his retirement in 1954.

He is survived by his wife Minna Rook Strickert, six sons, Walter F., Paul, Arthur, Arnold, Roland, Robert, and one daughter Betty Ruehrdanz.

Funeral services were Saturday, 2 p.m., March 12, 1960 st St. Paul's Lutheran Church , Jackson, MO. Burial in Russell Heights Cemertery, Jackson, MO.

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Personal Bio, written Dec. 10, 1947

Rev. Henry John Strickert was born to Friedrich W. and Catherine B. (nee Neumann) Strickert on April 9, 1885 near Mitchell, Ontario, Canada. He was baptized June 14, 1885 at the Lutheran Church in Logan Township by Pastor F. Dubpernell. His sponsors were Christian Rock and his wife Anna nee Neumann. With his parents he came to the United States in April 1893 and settled near Scott City, Kansas. He was confirmed on April 22, 1900 in Scott City by Pastor A.R. Roglitz. He was educated in the public schools of Kansas, also completing business courses. He studied at Concordia College and Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Illinois from 1910 to 1915, graduating in June of the latter year.

He was then called to St. Peter's Ev. Luth. Church near Shady Bend, Kansas, where he was ordained and installed on Aug. 15, 1915 by the Rev. J.H.F. Hoyer of Lincoln, Kansas. He served this congregation until June 1926, and in addition served a mission station at Hunter, Kansas, which he organized as Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hunter, Kansas in the spring of 1925. A year later a church was purchased and dedicated there.

He accepted the call to Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church at Tilsit, near Jackson, Missouri. On June 27, 1926, he was installed by the Rev. Victor Brugge of Gordonville, Missouri, and continued there through 1947. [ He retired in 1954 and moved to Jackson].

He was united in holy wedlock June 22, 1915 with Miss Minna Laura Rook of Bad Axe, Michigan. The union was blessed with seven children all of whom are living in 1947: The Rev. Walter F. Strickert of Chillecothe, Missouri; the Rev. Paul G. Strickert of Austin, Texas; the Rev. Arthur Strickert of Jackson, Tennesee; Arnold T. Strickert of Jackson, Mo.; Roland R. Strickert of Jackson, Strickert; Bertha C. Strickert of Jackson, MO, teaching at Immanuel Lutheran School; and Robert H. Strickert, at present a ministerial student in Quarta at St. Paul's College, Concordia, Mo.

[ See also page on Etta E. Strickert, Henry's first wife, linked to Strickert Kansas page.]

Henry John Strickert Obituary -- March 9, 1960