Deep sorrow weighed heavily on the hearts of citizens of Scott and vicinity Sunday. It was the day set for the funeral of Valentine Agler, who died on Friday, aged about 50 years. At the conclusion of the services Arthur Reed, undertaker, was making ready to leave for the cemetery, but had taken the lid off the casket to enable friends to view the remains. Then Mrs. Agler was led up to take a last look at her departed husband, when suddenly she was prostrated from grief. Mr. Reed caught her as she was sinking to the floor and she died in his arms. She was about 45 years of age. The burial of the husband was postponed until Tuesday when a double funeral took place, the procession with two hearses passing through Van Wert. Both husband and wife were laid at rest in Greenbrier cemetery four miles west of Ohio City. It is said that eight children, ranging in age from eighteen months to twenty-two years, are thus left poor orphans. To see these now almost homeless children follow to the grave both father and mother presented a sight most pitiful.
Deep sorrow weighed heavily on the hearts of citizens of Scott and vicinity Sunday. It was the day set for the funeral of Valentine Agler, who died on Friday, aged about 50 years. At the conclusion of the services Arthur Reed, undertaker, was making ready to leave for the cemetery, but had taken the lid off the casket to enable friends to view the remains. Then Mrs. Agler was led up to take a last look at her departed husband, when suddenly she was prostrated from grief. Mr. Reed caught her as she was sinking to the floor and she died in his arms. She was about 45 years of age. The burial of the husband was postponed until Tuesday when a double funeral took place, the procession with two hearses passing through Van Wert. Both husband and wife were laid at rest in Greenbrier cemetery four miles west of Ohio City. It is said that eight children, ranging in age from eighteen months to twenty-two years, are thus left poor orphans. To see these now almost homeless children follow to the grave both father and mother presented a sight most pitiful.
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