Kern County Obituaries

August Frederick Zwicker

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 06 Apr 1950 

Memorial Services
At the Wayside Chapel last Tuesday at 2 p.m. Rosamond paid last respects 
to August Frederick Zwicker, born Dec. 23, 1863, who passed away Thursday, 
March 30, after a brief illness. Rev. Wm. Hedgpeth offlciated.

Mr. Zwicker was one of a family of ten, six boys and four girls all of whom 
were born in Roane county, Tenn. He came to Rosamond in 1909 and homesteaded
a 360 acre piece of land which bordered Park Ave. on the east. His original 
home burned early during this residence here and he rebuilt a home, barn and 
outbuildings on the Park Ave. property which now belongs to Earl F. Fisher.

Mr. Zwicker's wife, Dorothy, whom he married in the early 1930's preceded him 
in death in 1942. There were no children.
	
After the home on Park Ave was burned accidentally by the explosion of 
a kerosene stove belonging to his tenants, Mr. Zwicker sold the remainder of 
his homestead and in the spring of 1944 he again built himself a home on 2nd 
street where he lived the remainder of his life.
 
During his 86 years Mr. Zwicker was a fine Christian man. He was generous and 
had a smile.for his many friends. His friendly presence during his daily visit 
to the post office will be missed, and an old gentleman, who in his overalls 
and straw hat awaiting the mail, has become a memory. He leaves a brother, 
Chas. of Centralia, Wash., who attended the funeral and brothers Henry and 
Albert of Kingston, Tenn., and Edwin of Fountain City, Tenn., and sisters, 
the Misses Louise and Theresa of Houston, Tex. and Mimi of Aberdeen, Wa. 
Interment was near the grave of his wife at Mojave.
	
Mr. Zwicker's old home on Park Ave. which was cleared in 1944 for a modern 
dwelling was an example of the ingenuity used by homesteaders in the use at 
native material in the building of a home on the desert, which has changed 
with the passing years. The buildings were of adobe brick or poured adobe with 
reed grass used as reinforcement. The fences which served the dual a purpose 
of keeping cattle in or out and as windbreaks, were of reed grass, native 
bamboo, interwoven with baling wire. Shortages of materials and absence of 
roads were adversities which only the old timers can remember. Thus we revere 
an old timer who worked hard and loved the desert.