Charles M. W. Neck, treasurer of the Allentown School system, died at his home, 427 Walnut Street, on February 12, 1932, aged eighty-two years.

Mr. Keck was born in Salisbury Township, September 28, 1850, the son of Charles and Mary B. (Gangewere) Keck. The father was a native of Lehigh County, and in early life followed farming and milling. In after life he as one of the proprietors of the Lehigh Patriot, a German newspaper, afterward consolidated with the Lehigh Register.

Mr. Neck was reared in Allentown, where his parents removed when he was two years of age. His education was acquired in the public and high schools, which he attended until fourteen years of age, when he began earning his own livelihood. He was employed in the Allentown Rolling Mills for ten months and on the expiration of that period accepted a clerkship in a general store in Allentown. On leaving that position he took a course in the commercial department of Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in order to better fit himself for a practical business life.

For a period of forty-eight years Mr. Keck was with the Allentown National Bank, starting as office boy in 1868 and continuing until he became cashier in May, 1885, serving until about 1914. It was while serving 'as cashier of the Allentown Bank that Mr. Keck was elected a member of the Section Board of the Allentown School District for the Second Ward in 1901. In 1906 he served as member of the Board of Control of the Allentown School District for the same ward.

In 1917 Mr. Keck was elected treasurer of the School Board, succeeding the late Alvin P. Zellner, and he held the position up until the time of his death.

Mr. Keck was instrumental in the organization of the Mutual Building and Loan Association, and for about five years was treasurer of the corporation. He was also treasurer of the Lehigh Valley Car Company. In politics he was a staunch Republican and was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church. He was also a member of the Livingston Club and the Allentown Lodge, No. 130, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

On October 24, 1872, Mr. Keck married Miss A. P. Newhard, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Newhard, of Allentown. Mrs. Keck survives, as well as three children: Mrs. Palmer Kress and Ray N. Keck, of Allentown; Charles.W. Keck, Jr., of Haddon Heights, New Jersey. A sister, Mrs. Thomas Gross, of Allentown, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive. A son, Frank Keck, formerly connected with the Allentown National Bank and later with a bank at Logansport, Ind., died at the latter place a number of years ago. Ray N. Neck, son mentioned above as surviving, has since died.