CPL Sandfort E. Rieke
1890 – 1966
USAR
WWI
Sandfort Earnest Rieke was born April 10, 1890 in Barrington, to Earnest and Alydia Golden Rieke.
He provided military service in World War I. Private Rieke sailed to France on June 30, 1918, with 184th Aero Service Squadron Signal Corps as a Private, and returned from France on April 23, 1919 with the 98th Aero Squadron as a Corporal – Air Service.
Rieke married Wilhelmina “Minnie” Kirchman on December 29, 1920 in Chicago; they raised one child. After Minnie's death, Rieke married Edith Magill Miller in 1956.
The lifelong Barrington resident was employed for most of his life as a carpenter – both as an independent contractor, and as a dairy employee. He retired in 1956 as Maintenance Foreman for the Bowman Dairy Plant in Chicago.
In his youth, Rieke enjoyed traveling around the United States, and visited all 50. He loved to share films of the highlights with friends and family.
Rieke served as a Trustee for the Village of Barrington for eight years, and was a Barrington Volunteer Fireman for 40 years. He was a member of Lounsbury Lodge #751 AF&AM and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church.
Corporal Sandfort Rieke died in February, 1966, in Bradenton, Florida, and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.