CHARLES F. HANCOCK

          Funeral service for Charles F. Hancock, 1712 Orleans Ave,
assistant chief of police who died at 11:15 a.m. Monday in St. Joseph
hospital will be held in the Schmidt Memorail Home at 10 a.m. Wednesday
with burial in the National cemetery.
          Military rites will be conducted at the grave by the American
Legion.
          In hailing health for several years, he retired last December
because of ill health after serving for 18 years on the police department.
          Born May 20, 1898, in Yonkers, N.Y., he was the son of Charles F.
and Sara Elizabeth Field Hancock.  He came to Keokuk at the age of 12 years
and had lived here since.
          A veteran of the first world war, he served in Company L of the
Iowa National guard, enlisting June 12, 1915.  This company became part of
the Rainbow Division or 168th infantry on the entrance of the United States
in the war and he served overseas.  He was on the Lorraine front, Champaign
Marne defensive, Alsne-Marne offensive, St. Miniel offensive and Meuse-Argonne offensive.  He was discharged at Camp Dodge May 17, 1919.
          On June 25, 1919 he married Vera Mac Crowell in Fort Madison.
          He was of the Baptist faith, a member of Keokuk Post 41 of the
American Legion, of the Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace
Officers and the Iowa State Police Association.
          Surviving besides his wife are a son, John W. Hancock of Keokuk,
a brother, John J. Hancock, his father, Charles F. Hancock, Sr., of
Chicago, and a half sister, Corin Hancock of Chicago, in addition to
nieces, nephews and other relatives.

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