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Mack Gaylord Fleck

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Birth Date: March 6, 1856
Death Date: February 4, 1926
Age at Death: 69

Marriages

Mary Bell Stahl Fleck - April 23, 1876

at Auburn, Kansas; Mary Bell died Nov. 7, 1898

Maybelle Ault Fleck - January 1900

Burial Details

Cemetery Location: Long Beach, California

Obituaries

[Salida newspaper]

PROMINENT PIONEER OF SALIDA DIES ON COAST - Word has been
received in this city of the death of Mack FLECK, a pioneer resident of the
state and of this community at Long Beach, California, Thursday February
4. Death resulted from flu-pneumonia and a complication of diseases.
Mr. Fleck had gone to California last November for his health, and was
deriving much benefit from the change of climate until this recent illness
overtook him.
With him at the time of his death were his wife, his son Roy, of Washington,
his daughters, Mrs. J.H. MCMUELLEN, Mrs. Minnie RICHARDSON and
Mrs. M.B. ALLEN, of Long Beach and Los Angeles, and a niece, Mrs.
Lyman BANKS.
Those in Salida to mourn Mr. Fleck's death are a daughter, Mrs. F. A.
BEAUREGARD, a son, Lloyd Fleck, and a step-son Harry AULT. Other
children surviving are Mrs. R.A. COLLINS of Minturn, Mrs. A.B.
WALTERS, of Red Cliff, and a son Ivan Fleck; also a brother, Charles in
Pueblo, and other sisters and brothers in the east.
Mack Fleck was born in Ohio, March 6, 1856, moving to Kansas when a
mere child, and to Colorado in 1880, locating first at Leadville. At later
intervals he resided at Red Cliff and in the Holy Cross district, finally taking
up a ranch at Avon, where he lived until coming to Salida six years ago. Mr. Fleck had held different positions of esteem and trust, having been
sheriff of Eagle County for six years, a commissioner of that County for a
like period of years, president of the school board, and serving in various
other capacities in a satisfactory manner.
Many pioneers of Chaffee Lake, Eagle, Garfield and Mesa counties will
mourn the passing of one of their number, since Mr. Fleck was prominently
interested in all activities in the communities in which he had resided for a
number of years, and was held in the highest respect by his friends and
acquaintances.
Funeral services will be conducted in Long Beach Sunday afternoon, and li?
and interment will be made there. (Contributed by Lana TROY)

Holy Cross Trail page 1 - February 6, 1926

CALLED BY GRIM REAPER - Another Eagle County
pioneer passes away - died in California last week - was leading citizen and
public officer of County for forty years. Mack Gaylord FLECK was born
March 6, 1856, near Upper Sandusky Ohio. He came with his parents Peter
and Sarah Fleck, when five years old, to Auburn township, Shawnee County,
Kansas, being the eldest of eight children who lived to manhood and
womanhood. He was married at Auburn, Kansas, April 23, 1876 to Mary
Bell STAHL. Ten children were born to them, his wife passing away
November 7, 1898.
He later married Maybelle AULT, January 1900.
He first came to Colorado in 1875, to near this part in 1878, and was back
and forth to Auburn Kansas until 1884 when he brought his family, a wife
and four children to Red Cliff and Eagle County. He moved in what is now
the Gustafson place in April, 1880, later moving to what is now Barlow
ranch, both near Avon where he resided until six years ago, when he moved
to Salida, Colorado.
In September, he accompanied his daughter and son in law Mr. and Mrs.
M.B. ALLEN, by auto to Long Beach, Calif where he passed away February
4, 1926, of complications of pneumonia and influenza, aggravated by asthma,
after an illness of two weeks. His wife, three daughters, son and
granddaughter, and their families were with him in Long Beach during his
illness.
He was town marshal of Red Cliff for years; sheriff and County
commissioner of Eagle country for a number of terms each, and a member of
the Eagle County High School board for years. He was 69 years, 10 months
and 28 days old at the time of his death. Besides his wife, Maybelle Fleck, he is survived by nine children, Bertha E.
WALTER of this city, Minnie RICHARDSON of Placentia, Calif.; Elmer L.
Fleck of Boyds, Wash,: Florence MCMUELLEN of Compton, Calif.; Hazel
BEAUREGARD of Salida, Colo.; Laura COLLINS of Minturn, Colo.; Lloyd
Fleck of Salida, Colo.; Helen ALLEN of Long Beach, Calif.; four brothers,
Charles of Pueblo, Colo.; Burdette of Auburn, Kan.; Louis of Maple Hill,
Kan.; Maurice of near Topeka, Kan.; two sisters, Minnie YEAGER and
Jennie BAKER of Auburn, Kan.; and fourteen grandchildren.
In the death of Mack Fleck one of the very old time characters of Eagle
County and Colorado passes on.
Mack Fleck was one of Eagle County's most progressive citizens for nearly
forty years. He made friends and some enemies. You never were in any doubt
where Mack Fleck stood on any public question. In politics always a
Republican. He was always foremost in any project for the betterment of the
community, and he was known far and wide. He leaves a host of friends. So
passeth the procession of old-timers. - Holy Cross Trail.
The funeral was held in Long Beach, Calif. last Sunday afternoon and
interment was made in a cemetery there. (Contributed by Lana TROY)

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