The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Dec. 11, 1925, p 1.
Walter G. Rood, for the past twenty-six years the editor and publisher of the Loyalist, died suddenly Friday December 4, 1925, at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, where he had gone, just one month before for medical treatment. His wife, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. H. M. Davis of Lincoln, returned to this place- his home - with the body, Saturday evening.
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Walter Gillette Rood was born near Dakota, Wisconsin, June 5, 1864. He was the youngest of nine children born to Chas. Persons and Marianne Rood.
In the summer of 1875, he, with his parents, moved from Wisconsin to North Loup, Nebraska, which has been his home continuously since that time, and nearly all of the time has been his place of residence.
He was married June 27, 1912, to Grace Maude Fackler of Ord, Nebraska.
He died in an Omaha Hospital, December 4, 1925.
He was baptized by Elder George Crandall and became a member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church, November 6, 1886.
He is survived by his wife and his daughter, two brothers, Hosea Whitford, Milton, Wisconsin, Charles J., North Loup, four sisters, Mary Davis and Genia Crandall, North Loup, Emma Terry of Boulder, Colorado, and Etta Crandall, Milton, Wisconsin.
Walter's father was chairman of the locating committee which chose the site for the colony which founded this village, and he, himself, took a homestead four miles west of the village. This was the family home for 12 years, and it was here that the father died March 17, 1878, leaving upon the fourteen year old boy, Walter, the responsibility for caring for the farm and providing for his mother and her aged parents who made their home with her.
His mother's home was always with him until her death in April, 1915.
Being a pioneer and the head of the family at such an early age, Walter's education was a matter of shortened interrupted terms of attendance at school. He was, however, a lover of books and possessed a natural thirst for knowledge and in spite of handicaps he acquired a good general education which made him the peer of men of greater advantages.
During the years of 1893 and 94, he was a student in Milton College, and for several years following he taught in Illinois and in Valley County, Nebraska.
In 1899 he bought the plant of the North Loup Loyalist and has been it's publisher and editor continuously since that time.
Since 1888 when Walter and his mother moved into the village, he has been closely associated with its life in all its phases.
His life and work among us is too well known to need specific comment.
He has served the village in many official capacities. No civic enterprise has been carried through without Walter's untiring support. His newspaper has championed and supported every good cause that in any way affected the life of the community. Scarcely a young life of this village but has received the stamp of his noble youth loving personality in some one of the many organizations with which he was associated. Few men will be so missed from the community as Walter Rood.
It will be many years before any public or religious undertaking will be assumed in North Loup without a keen sense of Walter Rood's loss saddening its supporters.
Possessed of many positive characteristics, no one was more marked than his natural habit of self depreciation. Giving himself tirelessly for others, it was a source of pain to his loved ones that he was unable to place its real value upon his own services. Struggling always towards a lofty ideal he was always self-reproachful at his failure to realize it. The pitiful reality of his own generosity and nobility was his inability to be reconciled to the limitations placed upon him by his own human nature.
The highest tribute to him is to recognize his heroic attempts to realize purposes too lofty for human achievement. Our best expression of love and respect for his unselfish life is emulation.
Written by a niece, Mrs. Ora Crandall Clement of Lincoln, Neb.
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The funeral services were held last Sunday, December 6th. After a prayer at the house, the remains were taken to the Seventh Day Baptist church, where his pastor, Rev. H. L. Polan, delivered the funeral sermon, He uses as his text, 'Be ye ready, also.' In the delivery of the sermon, he paid a wonderful tribute to the life of Mr. Rood.
Those who bore him to his last resting place were: Ed and Art Babcock, Herbert and Gaylord Thorngate, Clifton McClellen and Guilford Hutchins. Music was furnished by a chorus of twelve voices. The songs selected were: 'Saved by Grace' sung as a duet by Mesdames Esther Babcock and Eva Hill, 'Rock of Ages' and 'The Home of Endless Years'.
The bearers were named by Mr. Rood in a letter which he left in case of his death and it was his request that Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Hill sing the song beginning 'Someday the silver cord will break.'
The floral offerings were beautiful and profuse. It is the belief of many that never has there been such a tribute paid in flowers to anyone in our village. And this was most fitting for all who knew Mr. Rood knew of his passionate love for flowers.
Several brother editors were present to pay their tribute to one who had esteem for one who had gone thru hardships with them in the settlement of this country, which was his home, and who had gone to a Newer Country.
And so covered with flowers, surrounded by a loving group of relatives, pioneers and friends the body of Walter G. Rood, himself a friend,a craftsman, a pioneer and related to many was returned to the God who gave it.
Event: Obituary 17 DEC 1925
Note:
"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 17, 1925, p 1.
obituary on file
(From RootsWeb.com: They Came To Milton, by Jon Saunders).
Walter G. Rood, for the past twenty-six years the editor and publisher of the Loyalist, died suddenly Friday December 4, 1925, at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, where he had gone, just one month before for medical treatment. His wife, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. H. M. Davis of Lincoln, returned to this place- his home - with the body, Saturday evening.
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Walter Gillette Rood was born near Dakota, Wisconsin, June 5, 1864. He was the youngest of nine children born to Chas. Persons and Marianne Rood.
In the summer of 1875, he, with his parents, moved from Wisconsin to North Loup, Nebraska, which has been his home continuously since that time, and nearly all of the time has been his place of residence.
He was married June 27, 1912, to Grace Maude Fackler of Ord, Nebraska.
He died in an Omaha Hospital, December 4, 1925.
He was baptized by Elder George Crandall and became a member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church, November 6, 1886.
He is survived by his wife and his daughter, two brothers, Hosea Whitford, Milton, Wisconsin, Charles J., North Loup, four sisters, Mary Davis and Genia Crandall, North Loup, Emma Terry of Boulder, Colorado, and Etta Crandall, Milton, Wisconsin.
Walter's father was chairman of the locating committee which chose the site for the colony which founded this village, and he, himself, took a homestead four miles west of the village. This was the family home for 12 years, and it was here that the father died March 17, 1878, leaving upon the fourteen year old boy, Walter, the responsibility for caring for the farm and providing for his mother and her aged parents who made their home with her.
His mother's home was always with him until her death in April, 1915.
Being a pioneer and the head of the family at such an early age, Walter's education was a matter of shortened interrupted terms of attendance at school. He was, however, a lover of books and possessed a natural thirst for knowledge and in spite of handicaps he acquired a good general education which made him the peer of men of greater advantages.
During the years of 1893 and 94, he was a student in Milton College, and for several years following he taught in Illinois and in Valley County, Nebraska.
In 1899 he bought the plant of the North Loup Loyalist and has been it's publisher and editor continuously since that time.
Since 1888 when Walter and his mother moved into the village, he has been closely associated with its life in all its phases.
His life and work among us is too well known to need specific comment.
He has served the village in many official capacities. No civic enterprise has been carried through without Walter's untiring support. His newspaper has championed and supported every good cause that in any way affected the life of the community. Scarcely a young life of this village but has received the stamp of his noble youth loving personality in some one of the many organizations with which he was associated. Few men will be so missed from the community as Walter Rood.
It will be many years before any public or religious undertaking will be assumed in North Loup without a keen sense of Walter Rood's loss saddening its supporters.
Possessed of many positive characteristics, no one was more marked than his natural habit of self depreciation. Giving himself tirelessly for others, it was a source of pain to his loved ones that he was unable to place its real value upon his own services. Struggling always towards a lofty ideal he was always self-reproachful at his failure to realize it. The pitiful reality of his own generosity and nobility was his inability to be reconciled to the limitations placed upon him by his own human nature.
The highest tribute to him is to recognize his heroic attempts to realize purposes too lofty for human achievement. Our best expression of love and respect for his unselfish life is emulation.
Written by a niece, Mrs. Ora Crandall Clement of Lincoln, Neb.
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The funeral services were held last Sunday, December 6th. After a prayer at the house, the remains were taken to the Seventh Day Baptist church, where his pastor, Rev. H. L. Polan, delivered the funeral sermon, He uses as his text, 'Be ye ready, also.' In the delivery of the sermon, he paid a wonderful tribute to the life of Mr. Rood.
Those who bore him to his last resting place were: Ed and Art Babcock, Herbert and Gaylord Thorngate, Clifton McClellen and Guilford Hutchins. Music was furnished by a chorus of twelve voices. The songs selected were: 'Saved by Grace' sung as a duet by Mesdames Esther Babcock and Eva Hill, 'Rock of Ages' and 'The Home of Endless Years'.
The bearers were named by Mr. Rood in a letter which he left in case of his death and it was his request that Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Hill sing the song beginning 'Someday the silver cord will break.'
The floral offerings were beautiful and profuse. It is the belief of many that never has there been such a tribute paid in flowers to anyone in our village. And this was most fitting for all who knew Mr. Rood knew of his passionate love for flowers.
Several brother editors were present to pay their tribute to one who had esteem for one who had gone thru hardships with them in the settlement of this country, which was his home, and who had gone to a Newer Country.
And so covered with flowers, surrounded by a loving group of relatives, pioneers and friends the body of Walter G. Rood, himself a friend,a craftsman, a pioneer and related to many was returned to the God who gave it.
Event: Obituary 17 DEC 1925
Note:
"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 17, 1925, p 1.
obituary on file
(From RootsWeb.com: They Came To Milton, by Jon Saunders).
The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Dec. 11, 1925, p 1.
Walter G. Rood, for the past twenty-six years the editor and publisher of the Loyalist, died suddenly Friday December 4, 1925, at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, where he had gone, just one month before for medical treatment. His wife, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. H. M. Davis of Lincoln, returned to this place- his home - with the body, Saturday evening.
-----
Walter Gillette Rood was born near Dakota, Wisconsin, June 5, 1864. He was the youngest of nine children born to Chas. Persons and Marianne Rood.
In the summer of 1875, he, with his parents, moved from Wisconsin to North Loup, Nebraska, which has been his home continuously since that time, and nearly all of the time has been his place of residence.
He was married June 27, 1912, to Grace Maude Fackler of Ord, Nebraska.
He died in an Omaha Hospital, December 4, 1925.
He was baptized by Elder George Crandall and became a member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church, November 6, 1886.
He is survived by his wife and his daughter, two brothers, Hosea Whitford, Milton, Wisconsin, Charles J., North Loup, four sisters, Mary Davis and Genia Crandall, North Loup, Emma Terry of Boulder, Colorado, and Etta Crandall, Milton, Wisconsin.
Walter's father was chairman of the locating committee which chose the site for the colony which founded this village, and he, himself, took a homestead four miles west of the village. This was the family home for 12 years, and it was here that the father died March 17, 1878, leaving upon the fourteen year old boy, Walter, the responsibility for caring for the farm and providing for his mother and her aged parents who made their home with her.
His mother's home was always with him until her death in April, 1915.
Being a pioneer and the head of the family at such an early age, Walter's education was a matter of shortened interrupted terms of attendance at school. He was, however, a lover of books and possessed a natural thirst for knowledge and in spite of handicaps he acquired a good general education which made him the peer of men of greater advantages.
During the years of 1893 and 94, he was a student in Milton College, and for several years following he taught in Illinois and in Valley County, Nebraska.
In 1899 he bought the plant of the North Loup Loyalist and has been it's publisher and editor continuously since that time.
Since 1888 when Walter and his mother moved into the village, he has been closely associated with its life in all its phases.
His life and work among us is too well known to need specific comment.
He has served the village in many official capacities. No civic enterprise has been carried through without Walter's untiring support. His newspaper has championed and supported every good cause that in any way affected the life of the community. Scarcely a young life of this village but has received the stamp of his noble youth loving personality in some one of the many organizations with which he was associated. Few men will be so missed from the community as Walter Rood.
It will be many years before any public or religious undertaking will be assumed in North Loup without a keen sense of Walter Rood's loss saddening its supporters.
Possessed of many positive characteristics, no one was more marked than his natural habit of self depreciation. Giving himself tirelessly for others, it was a source of pain to his loved ones that he was unable to place its real value upon his own services. Struggling always towards a lofty ideal he was always self-reproachful at his failure to realize it. The pitiful reality of his own generosity and nobility was his inability to be reconciled to the limitations placed upon him by his own human nature.
The highest tribute to him is to recognize his heroic attempts to realize purposes too lofty for human achievement. Our best expression of love and respect for his unselfish life is emulation.
Written by a niece, Mrs. Ora Crandall Clement of Lincoln, Neb.
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The funeral services were held last Sunday, December 6th. After a prayer at the house, the remains were taken to the Seventh Day Baptist church, where his pastor, Rev. H. L. Polan, delivered the funeral sermon, He uses as his text, 'Be ye ready, also.' In the delivery of the sermon, he paid a wonderful tribute to the life of Mr. Rood.
Those who bore him to his last resting place were: Ed and Art Babcock, Herbert and Gaylord Thorngate, Clifton McClellen and Guilford Hutchins. Music was furnished by a chorus of twelve voices. The songs selected were: 'Saved by Grace' sung as a duet by Mesdames Esther Babcock and Eva Hill, 'Rock of Ages' and 'The Home of Endless Years'.
The bearers were named by Mr. Rood in a letter which he left in case of his death and it was his request that Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Hill sing the song beginning 'Someday the silver cord will break.'
The floral offerings were beautiful and profuse. It is the belief of many that never has there been such a tribute paid in flowers to anyone in our village. And this was most fitting for all who knew Mr. Rood knew of his passionate love for flowers.
Several brother editors were present to pay their tribute to one who had esteem for one who had gone thru hardships with them in the settlement of this country, which was his home, and who had gone to a Newer Country.
And so covered with flowers, surrounded by a loving group of relatives, pioneers and friends the body of Walter G. Rood, himself a friend,a craftsman, a pioneer and related to many was returned to the God who gave it.
Event: Obituary 17 DEC 1925
Note:
"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 17, 1925, p 1.
obituary on file
(From RootsWeb.com: They Came To Milton, by Jon Saunders).
Walter G. Rood, for the past twenty-six years the editor and publisher of the Loyalist, died suddenly Friday December 4, 1925, at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, where he had gone, just one month before for medical treatment. His wife, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. H. M. Davis of Lincoln, returned to this place- his home - with the body, Saturday evening.
-----
Walter Gillette Rood was born near Dakota, Wisconsin, June 5, 1864. He was the youngest of nine children born to Chas. Persons and Marianne Rood.
In the summer of 1875, he, with his parents, moved from Wisconsin to North Loup, Nebraska, which has been his home continuously since that time, and nearly all of the time has been his place of residence.
He was married June 27, 1912, to Grace Maude Fackler of Ord, Nebraska.
He died in an Omaha Hospital, December 4, 1925.
He was baptized by Elder George Crandall and became a member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church, November 6, 1886.
He is survived by his wife and his daughter, two brothers, Hosea Whitford, Milton, Wisconsin, Charles J., North Loup, four sisters, Mary Davis and Genia Crandall, North Loup, Emma Terry of Boulder, Colorado, and Etta Crandall, Milton, Wisconsin.
Walter's father was chairman of the locating committee which chose the site for the colony which founded this village, and he, himself, took a homestead four miles west of the village. This was the family home for 12 years, and it was here that the father died March 17, 1878, leaving upon the fourteen year old boy, Walter, the responsibility for caring for the farm and providing for his mother and her aged parents who made their home with her.
His mother's home was always with him until her death in April, 1915.
Being a pioneer and the head of the family at such an early age, Walter's education was a matter of shortened interrupted terms of attendance at school. He was, however, a lover of books and possessed a natural thirst for knowledge and in spite of handicaps he acquired a good general education which made him the peer of men of greater advantages.
During the years of 1893 and 94, he was a student in Milton College, and for several years following he taught in Illinois and in Valley County, Nebraska.
In 1899 he bought the plant of the North Loup Loyalist and has been it's publisher and editor continuously since that time.
Since 1888 when Walter and his mother moved into the village, he has been closely associated with its life in all its phases.
His life and work among us is too well known to need specific comment.
He has served the village in many official capacities. No civic enterprise has been carried through without Walter's untiring support. His newspaper has championed and supported every good cause that in any way affected the life of the community. Scarcely a young life of this village but has received the stamp of his noble youth loving personality in some one of the many organizations with which he was associated. Few men will be so missed from the community as Walter Rood.
It will be many years before any public or religious undertaking will be assumed in North Loup without a keen sense of Walter Rood's loss saddening its supporters.
Possessed of many positive characteristics, no one was more marked than his natural habit of self depreciation. Giving himself tirelessly for others, it was a source of pain to his loved ones that he was unable to place its real value upon his own services. Struggling always towards a lofty ideal he was always self-reproachful at his failure to realize it. The pitiful reality of his own generosity and nobility was his inability to be reconciled to the limitations placed upon him by his own human nature.
The highest tribute to him is to recognize his heroic attempts to realize purposes too lofty for human achievement. Our best expression of love and respect for his unselfish life is emulation.
Written by a niece, Mrs. Ora Crandall Clement of Lincoln, Neb.
-----
The funeral services were held last Sunday, December 6th. After a prayer at the house, the remains were taken to the Seventh Day Baptist church, where his pastor, Rev. H. L. Polan, delivered the funeral sermon, He uses as his text, 'Be ye ready, also.' In the delivery of the sermon, he paid a wonderful tribute to the life of Mr. Rood.
Those who bore him to his last resting place were: Ed and Art Babcock, Herbert and Gaylord Thorngate, Clifton McClellen and Guilford Hutchins. Music was furnished by a chorus of twelve voices. The songs selected were: 'Saved by Grace' sung as a duet by Mesdames Esther Babcock and Eva Hill, 'Rock of Ages' and 'The Home of Endless Years'.
The bearers were named by Mr. Rood in a letter which he left in case of his death and it was his request that Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Hill sing the song beginning 'Someday the silver cord will break.'
The floral offerings were beautiful and profuse. It is the belief of many that never has there been such a tribute paid in flowers to anyone in our village. And this was most fitting for all who knew Mr. Rood knew of his passionate love for flowers.
Several brother editors were present to pay their tribute to one who had esteem for one who had gone thru hardships with them in the settlement of this country, which was his home, and who had gone to a Newer Country.
And so covered with flowers, surrounded by a loving group of relatives, pioneers and friends the body of Walter G. Rood, himself a friend,a craftsman, a pioneer and related to many was returned to the God who gave it.
Event: Obituary 17 DEC 1925
Note:
"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 17, 1925, p 1.
obituary on file
(From RootsWeb.com: They Came To Milton, by Jon Saunders).
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