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Submitted: 6/6/20 • Approved: 6/21/20 • Last Updated: 6/24/20 • R1322235-G1322234-S3
Alexander
April 16, 1914 - March 24, 1980
*Obituary (News article)
Northwest Arkansas Times
Monday, March 24, 1980
Mayor Stikkers Of West Fork Fatally Stricken
WEST FORK -- Mayor Alexander Peter Stikkers, 75, of West Fork, died in the emergency room at Washington Regional Medical Center this morning from a heart attack suffered while working at city hall here.
Stikkers, who was also co-chairman of the Regional Solid Waste Committee, was rushed by city employees from his office at city hall to meet an ambulance near the White River bridge at Greenland.
Utilities Superintendent Michael (Butch) Bartholomew said Stikkers collapsed about 8:50 this morning.
Stikkers, a retired engineer for Vapor Cooperative of Chicago, Ill., moved to West Fork from Chicago in 1971. He was elected mayor in 1974, and continued to perform part-time consulting work for Vapor
He was born April, 16, 1914, in the Netherlands and emigrated with his family to the United States while still a child. He was the son of John and Jeanette Stikkers and a member of the Presbyterian Church in West Fork.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lucille Stikkers of the home, three sons, Donald Eugene of Clairmont, Calif., Wayne of Hammersville, Ohio, and Bruce of St. Joseph, Ill.; two brothers, Tim Stikkers of Springfield, Mo. and John Willian Stikkers of Glenview, Ill.; and 18 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Lucille
November 3, 1912 - December 11, 2005
Contributed on 6/6/20 by wfields55
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