OBIT:
The very sudden death of Dr. George Oliver Remy last Saturday noon [October 23, 1937] as he sat at the dinner table, brought to a close a long and useful life, which had been spent in the service to others.
He was a native of Indiana, being born at Hope, that state, Oct. 1st 1851, being three weeks and two days past eighty-six years of age, at death. He secured his collegiate education at the Baptist College, at Franklin, Ind. and took his medical course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1877.
For seven years he practiced in the state of Indiana and then came to Brown County where he took a homestead and started practicing in Ainsworth. In 1893 he went to the state of Washington for a year and then returned to Nebraska and practiced in Pender, Norfolk and Craig. In 1900 he returned to Ainsworth which has been his home ever since.
In 1872 he married to Margaret Elizabeth Barrett, who sojourned with him for fifty-one years and preceded him in death exactly four years ago. Three children were born to this union, two of whom, Mrs. Nannie R. Cotton and Dr. Charles E. Remy of Chicago, survive.
Dr. Remy was one of the first members of the Holt County Medical Society later the Elkhorn Valley Medical Association. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of A. F. and A. Masons. In civic life Dr. Remy was a leader in every movement for the betterment of society. During the War he served as the Medical member of the Selective Draft Board.
These factors however do not reveal the real character of Dr. Remy. He was a family Doctor of the old school, whose ideal was service to suffering humanity—and during his fifty years and more of practice he exemplified this ideal. No road was too long or arduous, throughout a sweep of territory, from Holt County to Cherry County, from the Loup River north into S. Dakota, for him to travel day or night, summer or winter for the relief of suffering.
His hobby was that of writing poetry and in one of them, entitled "Death" he exults in his victorious combats with death in saving lives of a wife, a mother, or a child, revealing somewhat of his view of his profession.
Dr. Remy was of a most cheerful optimistic nature and his character we think is best revealed in a poem written seven years ago as he entered upon his eightieth birthday. It is entitled "Satisfied" [February 1931] and follows:
Kind providence has guided me for almost eight years
Or maybe it was luck, I cannot know.
I only know I have no fear
Of what the future holds for me.
But this I know, the way seems bright
As I took out along the road to view approaching night.
What matter if I have not always had the best.
I'm sure I've had my share along with all the rest.
Some have had more, without the blessings of content.
If I am satisfied, then are my blessings heaven sent.
The funeral service will be held at his late residence on Osborn Street. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. H. Lindeman of Yankton, S.D., a former pastor of the Congregational Church and a friend of thirty years standing.
The very sudden death of Dr. George Oliver Remy last Saturday noon [October 23, 1937] as he sat at the dinner table, brought to a close a long and useful life, which had been spent in the service to others.
He was a native of Indiana, being born at Hope, that state, Oct. 1st 1851, being three weeks and two days past eighty-six years of age, at death. He secured his collegiate education at the Baptist College, at Franklin, Ind. and took his medical course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1877.
For seven years he practiced in the state of Indiana and then came to Brown County where he took a homestead and started practicing in Ainsworth. In 1893 he went to the state of Washington for a year and then returned to Nebraska and practiced in Pender, Norfolk and Craig. In 1900 he returned to Ainsworth which has been his home ever since.
In 1872 he married to Margaret Elizabeth Barrett, who sojourned with him for fifty-one years and preceded him in death exactly four years ago. Three children were born to this union, two of whom, Mrs. Nannie R. Cotton and Dr. Charles E. Remy of Chicago, survive.
Dr. Remy was one of the first members of the Holt County Medical Society later the Elkhorn Valley Medical Association. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of A. F. and A. Masons. In civic life Dr. Remy was a leader in every movement for the betterment of society. During the War he served as the Medical member of the Selective Draft Board.
These factors however do not reveal the real character of Dr. Remy. He was a family Doctor of the old school, whose ideal was service to suffering humanity—and during his fifty years and more of practice he exemplified this ideal. No road was too long or arduous, throughout a sweep of territory, from Holt County to Cherry County, from the Loup River north into S. Dakota, for him to travel day or night, summer or winter for the relief of suffering.
His hobby was that of writing poetry and in one of them, entitled "Death" he exults in his victorious combats with death in saving lives of a wife, a mother, or a child, revealing somewhat of his view of his profession.
Dr. Remy was of a most cheerful optimistic nature and his character we think is best revealed in a poem written seven years ago as he entered upon his eightieth birthday. It is entitled "Satisfied" [February 1931] and follows:
Kind providence has guided me for almost eight years
Or maybe it was luck, I cannot know.
I only know I have no fear
Of what the future holds for me.
But this I know, the way seems bright
As I took out along the road to view approaching night.
What matter if I have not always had the best.
I'm sure I've had my share along with all the rest.
Some have had more, without the blessings of content.
If I am satisfied, then are my blessings heaven sent.
The funeral service will be held at his late residence on Osborn Street. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. H. Lindeman of Yankton, S.D., a former pastor of the Congregational Church and a friend of thirty years standing.
OBIT:
The very sudden death of Dr. George Oliver Remy last Saturday noon [October 23, 1937] as he sat at the dinner table, brought to a close a long and useful life, which had been spent in the service to others.
He was a native of Indiana, being born at Hope, that state, Oct. 1st 1851, being three weeks and two days past eighty-six years of age, at death. He secured his collegiate education at the Baptist College, at Franklin, Ind. and took his medical course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1877.
For seven years he practiced in the state of Indiana and then came to Brown County where he took a homestead and started practicing in Ainsworth. In 1893 he went to the state of Washington for a year and then returned to Nebraska and practiced in Pender, Norfolk and Craig. In 1900 he returned to Ainsworth which has been his home ever since.
In 1872 he married to Margaret Elizabeth Barrett, who sojourned with him for fifty-one years and preceded him in death exactly four years ago. Three children were born to this union, two of whom, Mrs. Nannie R. Cotton and Dr. Charles E. Remy of Chicago, survive.
Dr. Remy was one of the first members of the Holt County Medical Society later the Elkhorn Valley Medical Association. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of A. F. and A. Masons. In civic life Dr. Remy was a leader in every movement for the betterment of society. During the War he served as the Medical member of the Selective Draft Board.
These factors however do not reveal the real character of Dr. Remy. He was a family Doctor of the old school, whose ideal was service to suffering humanity—and during his fifty years and more of practice he exemplified this ideal. No road was too long or arduous, throughout a sweep of territory, from Holt County to Cherry County, from the Loup River north into S. Dakota, for him to travel day or night, summer or winter for the relief of suffering.
His hobby was that of writing poetry and in one of them, entitled "Death" he exults in his victorious combats with death in saving lives of a wife, a mother, or a child, revealing somewhat of his view of his profession.
Dr. Remy was of a most cheerful optimistic nature and his character we think is best revealed in a poem written seven years ago as he entered upon his eightieth birthday. It is entitled "Satisfied" [February 1931] and follows:
Kind providence has guided me for almost eight years
Or maybe it was luck, I cannot know.
I only know I have no fear
Of what the future holds for me.
But this I know, the way seems bright
As I took out along the road to view approaching night.
What matter if I have not always had the best.
I'm sure I've had my share along with all the rest.
Some have had more, without the blessings of content.
If I am satisfied, then are my blessings heaven sent.
The funeral service will be held at his late residence on Osborn Street. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. H. Lindeman of Yankton, S.D., a former pastor of the Congregational Church and a friend of thirty years standing.
The very sudden death of Dr. George Oliver Remy last Saturday noon [October 23, 1937] as he sat at the dinner table, brought to a close a long and useful life, which had been spent in the service to others.
He was a native of Indiana, being born at Hope, that state, Oct. 1st 1851, being three weeks and two days past eighty-six years of age, at death. He secured his collegiate education at the Baptist College, at Franklin, Ind. and took his medical course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1877.
For seven years he practiced in the state of Indiana and then came to Brown County where he took a homestead and started practicing in Ainsworth. In 1893 he went to the state of Washington for a year and then returned to Nebraska and practiced in Pender, Norfolk and Craig. In 1900 he returned to Ainsworth which has been his home ever since.
In 1872 he married to Margaret Elizabeth Barrett, who sojourned with him for fifty-one years and preceded him in death exactly four years ago. Three children were born to this union, two of whom, Mrs. Nannie R. Cotton and Dr. Charles E. Remy of Chicago, survive.
Dr. Remy was one of the first members of the Holt County Medical Society later the Elkhorn Valley Medical Association. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of A. F. and A. Masons. In civic life Dr. Remy was a leader in every movement for the betterment of society. During the War he served as the Medical member of the Selective Draft Board.
These factors however do not reveal the real character of Dr. Remy. He was a family Doctor of the old school, whose ideal was service to suffering humanity—and during his fifty years and more of practice he exemplified this ideal. No road was too long or arduous, throughout a sweep of territory, from Holt County to Cherry County, from the Loup River north into S. Dakota, for him to travel day or night, summer or winter for the relief of suffering.
His hobby was that of writing poetry and in one of them, entitled "Death" he exults in his victorious combats with death in saving lives of a wife, a mother, or a child, revealing somewhat of his view of his profession.
Dr. Remy was of a most cheerful optimistic nature and his character we think is best revealed in a poem written seven years ago as he entered upon his eightieth birthday. It is entitled "Satisfied" [February 1931] and follows:
Kind providence has guided me for almost eight years
Or maybe it was luck, I cannot know.
I only know I have no fear
Of what the future holds for me.
But this I know, the way seems bright
As I took out along the road to view approaching night.
What matter if I have not always had the best.
I'm sure I've had my share along with all the rest.
Some have had more, without the blessings of content.
If I am satisfied, then are my blessings heaven sent.
The funeral service will be held at his late residence on Osborn Street. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. H. Lindeman of Yankton, S.D., a former pastor of the Congregational Church and a friend of thirty years standing.
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