Published in Blair Courier on 23 May 1901
The death of Will Grimm was not unexpected for his physician said he could not live, yet the end came very suddenly on Tuesday and cast a gloom over the entire city, for he was an exceptionally popular young man and had already given promise for a successful business career. He was born a little over twenty-seven year ago on the very spot where his death occurred, in the east part of the city. In 1893, while in his junior year in the High School, he accepted a position in the Banking House of A. Castetter which position he filled in a most satisfactory manner until his failing health compelled him to resign August 1, 1900. Since that time he visited Hot Springs, S.D., various points in Florida and Georgia, and lastly Phoenix, Arizona, in search of a more agreeable climate, but all to no avail for the much dreaded Bright's disease held him firm in its grasp and would not let go until death came peacefully at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Irving P. Johnson, of south Omaha, conducted the funeral services at the home at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which were largely attended. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a delegation of the Modern Woodmen and Mystic Legion lodges, the former conducting the services at the grave. The floral tributes and decorations were in excellent taste and gave expression to the silent messages of grief each sorrowing heart would speak. By the graveside of this departed friend we all have stood as mute uncovered witnesses before the powerful hand of the grim messenger of eternity, while sorrow fills all our hearts with tender and loving emotions toward all mankind.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Contributor: Dixie Lambert (46894002)
The death of Will Grimm was not unexpected for his physician said he could not live, yet the end came very suddenly on Tuesday and cast a gloom over the entire city, for he was an exceptionally popular young man and had already given promise for a successful business career. He was born a little over twenty-seven year ago on the very spot where his death occurred, in the east part of the city. In 1893, while in his junior year in the High School, he accepted a position in the Banking House of A. Castetter which position he filled in a most satisfactory manner until his failing health compelled him to resign August 1, 1900. Since that time he visited Hot Springs, S.D., various points in Florida and Georgia, and lastly Phoenix, Arizona, in search of a more agreeable climate, but all to no avail for the much dreaded Bright's disease held him firm in its grasp and would not let go until death came peacefully at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Irving P. Johnson, of south Omaha, conducted the funeral services at the home at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which were largely attended. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a delegation of the Modern Woodmen and Mystic Legion lodges, the former conducting the services at the grave. The floral tributes and decorations were in excellent taste and gave expression to the silent messages of grief each sorrowing heart would speak. By the graveside of this departed friend we all have stood as mute uncovered witnesses before the powerful hand of the grim messenger of eternity, while sorrow fills all our hearts with tender and loving emotions toward all mankind.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Contributor: Dixie Lambert (46894002)
Published in Blair Courier on 23 May 1901
The death of Will Grimm was not unexpected for his physician said he could not live, yet the end came very suddenly on Tuesday and cast a gloom over the entire city, for he was an exceptionally popular young man and had already given promise for a successful business career. He was born a little over twenty-seven year ago on the very spot where his death occurred, in the east part of the city. In 1893, while in his junior year in the High School, he accepted a position in the Banking House of A. Castetter which position he filled in a most satisfactory manner until his failing health compelled him to resign August 1, 1900. Since that time he visited Hot Springs, S.D., various points in Florida and Georgia, and lastly Phoenix, Arizona, in search of a more agreeable climate, but all to no avail for the much dreaded Bright's disease held him firm in its grasp and would not let go until death came peacefully at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Irving P. Johnson, of south Omaha, conducted the funeral services at the home at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which were largely attended. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a delegation of the Modern Woodmen and Mystic Legion lodges, the former conducting the services at the grave. The floral tributes and decorations were in excellent taste and gave expression to the silent messages of grief each sorrowing heart would speak. By the graveside of this departed friend we all have stood as mute uncovered witnesses before the powerful hand of the grim messenger of eternity, while sorrow fills all our hearts with tender and loving emotions toward all mankind.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Contributor: Dixie Lambert (46894002)
The death of Will Grimm was not unexpected for his physician said he could not live, yet the end came very suddenly on Tuesday and cast a gloom over the entire city, for he was an exceptionally popular young man and had already given promise for a successful business career. He was born a little over twenty-seven year ago on the very spot where his death occurred, in the east part of the city. In 1893, while in his junior year in the High School, he accepted a position in the Banking House of A. Castetter which position he filled in a most satisfactory manner until his failing health compelled him to resign August 1, 1900. Since that time he visited Hot Springs, S.D., various points in Florida and Georgia, and lastly Phoenix, Arizona, in search of a more agreeable climate, but all to no avail for the much dreaded Bright's disease held him firm in its grasp and would not let go until death came peacefully at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Irving P. Johnson, of south Omaha, conducted the funeral services at the home at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which were largely attended. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a delegation of the Modern Woodmen and Mystic Legion lodges, the former conducting the services at the grave. The floral tributes and decorations were in excellent taste and gave expression to the silent messages of grief each sorrowing heart would speak. By the graveside of this departed friend we all have stood as mute uncovered witnesses before the powerful hand of the grim messenger of eternity, while sorrow fills all our hearts with tender and loving emotions toward all mankind.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Contributor: Dixie Lambert (46894002)
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