Adolph Herman Starck, a son of the Rev. Ernest and Elizabeth (Wolf) Starck, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, on November 25, 1897. He was baptized December 5, 1897, in Winnipeg and confirmed in the Lutheran faith May 31, 1912, at Remsen, Iowa.

He served overseas with the U.S. Army during World War I.

On May 12, 1920, he was married to Effie Shaw at Trinity Lutheran Church northwest of Audubon. They farmed near Gray, until 1924, when they moved to Chicago where he operated an auto rebuilding business until they retired to their farm home near Gray in 1967.

Survivors include his wife, Effie; two sons, Herbert Starck of West Chicago, Illinois, and Robert of Villa Park, Illinois; five grandchildren; two brothers, Arthur of Goode, Virginia; and Frederick of Midway, Arkansas; two sisters, Elsie Starck of Chicago; and Frieda Martins of Evanston, Illinois.

Preceding him in death were two children, Alvin and Opal Grace; his parents; and four brothers, Ernest, Walter, Herbert, and Edward.

Funeral services were held Friday at McFadden Funeral Home with the Rev. Werner F. Wetzstein, officiating, and on Monday in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Wheaton, Illinois, with the Rev. Theodore Laesch officiating. Interment was in Chapel Hill Gardens at Elmhurst, Illinois.