OLIVE (CAROLUS) DEETS of Emerson passed away at 6 o’clock Friday [01/08/1926] morning at Umatilla, Fla., where she had gone some weeks ago to spend the winter. Her husband and her daughter, Miss Florence M. Deets, R. N., accompanaied her on the trip and were with her at the time of her death. The first intimation relatives at home had of her serious illness was a message received Thursday stating that she was dangerously ill of pneumonia. The dispatch received Friday, telling of her death came as a shock to the members of the family here and the many friends of Mrs. Deets. The remains will be brought to Emerson, leaving Umatilla Saturday and arriving here Monday. Definite arrangements for the funeral will be announced later. Mrs. Deets’ maiden name was Olive Carolus. She is a daughter of Mrs. Margaret Carolus of Emerson who survives her. Beside her husband and daughter now in Florida she leaves three sons, as follows: James R. and Lester J. Deets of Emerson, and Lee E. Deets of New York City. Two brothers and a sister also survive, all living in the west, and her mother is now visiting in Washington state. Practically all of Mrs. Deets’ 54 years of exemplary life were spent in this vicinity and she was well known and highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends, who extend sympathy to the family.
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Sometimes death comes as a blessed sense of relief and release after a long siege of suffering or wasting from disease. But when in the midst of health and activity death comes, it seems more like an enemy. Then is when the doctrine of the Providence of God unfolds so much of mystery which these limited reasons of ours strive in vain to explain. Perhaps the mystery is to gently and yet firmly head us to an attitude of trust in the sovereign wisdom and love of God. And if we rise to this higher live we shall be sustained and may be able to affirm not only submissively but confidently, “Thy will is best, Thy will be done.” Olive Carolus was born at Emerson, Ill., Feb. 8, 1871, and passed away in death at Umatilla, Florida, Friday, Jan 8, 1926, aged 54 years and 8 [sic] months, after an illness from pneumonia of scarcely forty-eight hours. Mrs. Deets was the daughter of William and Margaret Feightner Carolus, pioneer residents of this community whose piety and industry have had so much to do with laying the moral and religious foundations upon which our homes, churches and public schools of today have been built. Miss Carolus attended the Emerson school, which under the leadership of the late W. W. Davis, had the equivalent of the standards of a high school, which were continued after his service as teacher there. She was united in marriage to James M. Deets, in Emerson, by Rev. E. Brown, pastor of the Emerson church, on Nov. 8, 1888. To them four children were born, all of whom remain to mourn the loss of a loving mother; Miss Florence M. registered nurse, whose home is in Umatilla, Florida; Lester J. and James F. of Emerson and Lee Emerson, of New York City. It is a melancholy comfort that all her children could be present at her funeral service to share the mutual burden of loss with the bereft father. However, there is pathos in the fact that Mrs. Deets’ aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Carolus, is visiting during the winter her daughter, Iona, Mrs. C. F. Deets, in Bellingham, Washington, and the distance made it impossible for her to be present. Besides the aged mother, husband and children and the sister already mentioned, two brothers, Harry W. Carolus, Hartline, Wash., and Charles Carolus, Modesto, California, two grandchildren and a great number of friends throughout the entrie community keenly miss her presence. One sister, Clara, Mrs. Frank Baird, passed away in Sterling, May 30, 1907. Mrs. Deets was a faithful member of the Emerson Lutheran church, serving its interests with remarkable devotion and efficiency. It was her church home and the same zeal and purposeful activity which characterized her life in her own near-by home, she gave in unstinted measure to her church and Bible school. She was a true follower of her Savior and Lord, and the little ones in the community for years call her, “Our Sunday School Teacher.” She was a devout listener to the Word of God at the services of worship and ministers will ever recall her presence as a positive inspiration. Early in December she with her husband journeyed in health and strength southward to the Land of Flowers, planning to spend the winter in the home of the daughter, Florence. She was the victim of pneumonia, that dreaded affliction which sometimes works results so quickly of a fatal character. She was conscious up to the very last and was prepared to go because she always was ready. And so hath ended a good life in our cmmunity whose positive influence was ever for good. For her Christ was a life to live and the memory of what she was and did, is indeed a blessed compensation for the loss which is so keenly felt by all who knew her.
Funeral Notice
The funeral of Mrs. J. M. Deets will be conducted by Dr. E. C. Harris of St. John’s Lutheran church Tuesday [01/12/1926] afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family home in Emerson and at 2:30 o’clock at the Emerson church. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery. The remains arrived from Florida Monday. Lee Deets of N. Y., son of Mrs. Deets, arrived at noon Monday to attend the funeral.
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Sometimes death comes as a blessed sense of relief and release after a long siege of suffering or wasting from disease. But when in the midst of health and activity death comes, it seems more like an enemy. Then is when the doctrine of the Providence of God unfolds so much of mystery which these limited reasons of ours strive in vain to explain. Perhaps the mystery is to gently and yet firmly head us to an attitude of trust in the sovereign wisdom and love of God. And if we rise to this higher live we shall be sustained and may be able to affirm not only submissively but confidently, “Thy will is best, Thy will be done.” Olive Carolus was born at Emerson, Ill., Feb. 8, 1871, and passed away in death at Umatilla, Florida, Friday, Jan 8, 1926, aged 54 years and 8 [sic] months, after an illness from pneumonia of scarcely forty-eight hours. Mrs. Deets was the daughter of William and Margaret Feightner Carolus, pioneer residents of this community whose piety and industry have had so much to do with laying the moral and religious foundations upon which our homes, churches and public schools of today have been built. Miss Carolus attended the Emerson school, which under the leadership of the late W. W. Davis, had the equivalent of the standards of a high school, which were continued after his service as teacher there. She was united in marriage to James M. Deets, in Emerson, by Rev. E. Brown, pastor of the Emerson church, on Nov. 8, 1888. To them four children were born, all of whom remain to mourn the loss of a loving mother; Miss Florence M. registered nurse, whose home is in Umatilla, Florida; Lester J. and James F. of Emerson and Lee Emerson, of New York City. It is a melancholy comfort that all her children could be present at her funeral service to share the mutual burden of loss with the bereft father. However, there is pathos in the fact that Mrs. Deets’ aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Carolus, is visiting during the winter her daughter, Iona, Mrs. C. F. Deets, in Bellingham, Washington, and the distance made it impossible for her to be present. Besides the aged mother, husband and children and the sister already mentioned, two brothers, Harry W. Carolus, Hartline, Wash., and Charles Carolus, Modesto, California, two grandchildren and a great number of friends throughout the entrie community keenly miss her presence. One sister, Clara, Mrs. Frank Baird, passed away in Sterling, May 30, 1907. Mrs. Deets was a faithful member of the Emerson Lutheran church, serving its interests with remarkable devotion and efficiency. It was her church home and the same zeal and purposeful activity which characterized her life in her own near-by home, she gave in unstinted measure to her church and Bible school. She was a true follower of her Savior and Lord, and the little ones in the community for years call her, “Our Sunday School Teacher.” She was a devout listener to the Word of God at the services of worship and ministers will ever recall her presence as a positive inspiration. Early in December she with her husband journeyed in health and strength southward to the Land of Flowers, planning to spend the winter in the home of the daughter, Florence. She was the victim of pneumonia, that dreaded affliction which sometimes works results so quickly of a fatal character. She was conscious up to the very last and was prepared to go because she always was ready. And so hath ended a good life in our cmmunity whose positive influence was ever for good. For her Christ was a life to live and the memory of what she was and did, is indeed a blessed compensation for the loss which is so keenly felt by all who knew her.
Funeral Notice
The funeral of Mrs. J. M. Deets will be conducted by Dr. E. C. Harris of St. John’s Lutheran church Tuesday [01/12/1926] afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family home in Emerson and at 2:30 o’clock at the Emerson church. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery. The remains arrived from Florida Monday. Lee Deets of N. Y., son of Mrs. Deets, arrived at noon Monday to attend the funeral.
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OLIVE (CAROLUS) DEETS of Emerson passed away at 6 o’clock Friday [01/08/1926] morning at Umatilla, Fla., where she had gone some weeks ago to spend the winter. Her husband and her daughter, Miss Florence M. Deets, R. N., accompanaied her on the trip and were with her at the time of her death. The first intimation relatives at home had of her serious illness was a message received Thursday stating that she was dangerously ill of pneumonia. The dispatch received Friday, telling of her death came as a shock to the members of the family here and the many friends of Mrs. Deets. The remains will be brought to Emerson, leaving Umatilla Saturday and arriving here Monday. Definite arrangements for the funeral will be announced later. Mrs. Deets’ maiden name was Olive Carolus. She is a daughter of Mrs. Margaret Carolus of Emerson who survives her. Beside her husband and daughter now in Florida she leaves three sons, as follows: James R. and Lester J. Deets of Emerson, and Lee E. Deets of New York City. Two brothers and a sister also survive, all living in the west, and her mother is now visiting in Washington state. Practically all of Mrs. Deets’ 54 years of exemplary life were spent in this vicinity and she was well known and highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends, who extend sympathy to the family.
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Sometimes death comes as a blessed sense of relief and release after a long siege of suffering or wasting from disease. But when in the midst of health and activity death comes, it seems more like an enemy. Then is when the doctrine of the Providence of God unfolds so much of mystery which these limited reasons of ours strive in vain to explain. Perhaps the mystery is to gently and yet firmly head us to an attitude of trust in the sovereign wisdom and love of God. And if we rise to this higher live we shall be sustained and may be able to affirm not only submissively but confidently, “Thy will is best, Thy will be done.” Olive Carolus was born at Emerson, Ill., Feb. 8, 1871, and passed away in death at Umatilla, Florida, Friday, Jan 8, 1926, aged 54 years and 8 [sic] months, after an illness from pneumonia of scarcely forty-eight hours. Mrs. Deets was the daughter of William and Margaret Feightner Carolus, pioneer residents of this community whose piety and industry have had so much to do with laying the moral and religious foundations upon which our homes, churches and public schools of today have been built. Miss Carolus attended the Emerson school, which under the leadership of the late W. W. Davis, had the equivalent of the standards of a high school, which were continued after his service as teacher there. She was united in marriage to James M. Deets, in Emerson, by Rev. E. Brown, pastor of the Emerson church, on Nov. 8, 1888. To them four children were born, all of whom remain to mourn the loss of a loving mother; Miss Florence M. registered nurse, whose home is in Umatilla, Florida; Lester J. and James F. of Emerson and Lee Emerson, of New York City. It is a melancholy comfort that all her children could be present at her funeral service to share the mutual burden of loss with the bereft father. However, there is pathos in the fact that Mrs. Deets’ aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Carolus, is visiting during the winter her daughter, Iona, Mrs. C. F. Deets, in Bellingham, Washington, and the distance made it impossible for her to be present. Besides the aged mother, husband and children and the sister already mentioned, two brothers, Harry W. Carolus, Hartline, Wash., and Charles Carolus, Modesto, California, two grandchildren and a great number of friends throughout the entrie community keenly miss her presence. One sister, Clara, Mrs. Frank Baird, passed away in Sterling, May 30, 1907. Mrs. Deets was a faithful member of the Emerson Lutheran church, serving its interests with remarkable devotion and efficiency. It was her church home and the same zeal and purposeful activity which characterized her life in her own near-by home, she gave in unstinted measure to her church and Bible school. She was a true follower of her Savior and Lord, and the little ones in the community for years call her, “Our Sunday School Teacher.” She was a devout listener to the Word of God at the services of worship and ministers will ever recall her presence as a positive inspiration. Early in December she with her husband journeyed in health and strength southward to the Land of Flowers, planning to spend the winter in the home of the daughter, Florence. She was the victim of pneumonia, that dreaded affliction which sometimes works results so quickly of a fatal character. She was conscious up to the very last and was prepared to go because she always was ready. And so hath ended a good life in our cmmunity whose positive influence was ever for good. For her Christ was a life to live and the memory of what she was and did, is indeed a blessed compensation for the loss which is so keenly felt by all who knew her.
Funeral Notice
The funeral of Mrs. J. M. Deets will be conducted by Dr. E. C. Harris of St. John’s Lutheran church Tuesday [01/12/1926] afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family home in Emerson and at 2:30 o’clock at the Emerson church. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery. The remains arrived from Florida Monday. Lee Deets of N. Y., son of Mrs. Deets, arrived at noon Monday to attend the funeral.
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Sometimes death comes as a blessed sense of relief and release after a long siege of suffering or wasting from disease. But when in the midst of health and activity death comes, it seems more like an enemy. Then is when the doctrine of the Providence of God unfolds so much of mystery which these limited reasons of ours strive in vain to explain. Perhaps the mystery is to gently and yet firmly head us to an attitude of trust in the sovereign wisdom and love of God. And if we rise to this higher live we shall be sustained and may be able to affirm not only submissively but confidently, “Thy will is best, Thy will be done.” Olive Carolus was born at Emerson, Ill., Feb. 8, 1871, and passed away in death at Umatilla, Florida, Friday, Jan 8, 1926, aged 54 years and 8 [sic] months, after an illness from pneumonia of scarcely forty-eight hours. Mrs. Deets was the daughter of William and Margaret Feightner Carolus, pioneer residents of this community whose piety and industry have had so much to do with laying the moral and religious foundations upon which our homes, churches and public schools of today have been built. Miss Carolus attended the Emerson school, which under the leadership of the late W. W. Davis, had the equivalent of the standards of a high school, which were continued after his service as teacher there. She was united in marriage to James M. Deets, in Emerson, by Rev. E. Brown, pastor of the Emerson church, on Nov. 8, 1888. To them four children were born, all of whom remain to mourn the loss of a loving mother; Miss Florence M. registered nurse, whose home is in Umatilla, Florida; Lester J. and James F. of Emerson and Lee Emerson, of New York City. It is a melancholy comfort that all her children could be present at her funeral service to share the mutual burden of loss with the bereft father. However, there is pathos in the fact that Mrs. Deets’ aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Carolus, is visiting during the winter her daughter, Iona, Mrs. C. F. Deets, in Bellingham, Washington, and the distance made it impossible for her to be present. Besides the aged mother, husband and children and the sister already mentioned, two brothers, Harry W. Carolus, Hartline, Wash., and Charles Carolus, Modesto, California, two grandchildren and a great number of friends throughout the entrie community keenly miss her presence. One sister, Clara, Mrs. Frank Baird, passed away in Sterling, May 30, 1907. Mrs. Deets was a faithful member of the Emerson Lutheran church, serving its interests with remarkable devotion and efficiency. It was her church home and the same zeal and purposeful activity which characterized her life in her own near-by home, she gave in unstinted measure to her church and Bible school. She was a true follower of her Savior and Lord, and the little ones in the community for years call her, “Our Sunday School Teacher.” She was a devout listener to the Word of God at the services of worship and ministers will ever recall her presence as a positive inspiration. Early in December she with her husband journeyed in health and strength southward to the Land of Flowers, planning to spend the winter in the home of the daughter, Florence. She was the victim of pneumonia, that dreaded affliction which sometimes works results so quickly of a fatal character. She was conscious up to the very last and was prepared to go because she always was ready. And so hath ended a good life in our cmmunity whose positive influence was ever for good. For her Christ was a life to live and the memory of what she was and did, is indeed a blessed compensation for the loss which is so keenly felt by all who knew her.
Funeral Notice
The funeral of Mrs. J. M. Deets will be conducted by Dr. E. C. Harris of St. John’s Lutheran church Tuesday [01/12/1926] afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family home in Emerson and at 2:30 o’clock at the Emerson church. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery. The remains arrived from Florida Monday. Lee Deets of N. Y., son of Mrs. Deets, arrived at noon Monday to attend the funeral.
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