Obituary published in The Gospel Messenger, February 8, 1913, page 96:
THE PASSING OF SISTER E. C. REITZ.
About twenty years ago, Prof. E. C. Reitz and wife moved from Boone County, Iowa, to Anaconda, Montana, where they engaged in school-teaching for about six months. Later in the same year they moved to Missoula in the same State, where they founded, and successfully conducted the Garden City Commercial College. For about ten years they stood aloof from any church relations. Though often conscious of their duty to their God, and sometimes keenly convicted, they could not decide on uniting with any of the churches of Missoula, without first giving themselves to a thorough investigation of the Word, and then to decide accordingly.
After deciding that the Church of the Brethren came nearest the apostolic church, the writer received a letter from them, requesting some one to come and administer baptism. In accordance with this request Eld. J. U. G. Stiverson and wife were sent under the direction of the Mission Board. The applicants were duly baptized and received into the church – the first to be baptized into the Church of the Brethren in the State of Montana. The above baptism took place in 1902. For ten years more they continued in the school work, though at a disadvantage religiously, being isolated from the church all these years.
In the latter part of last November, Sister Reitz was taken sick. The doctor was called but was unable to locate the malady. Other doctors were called in consultation, until six doctors had exhausted their skill without any success. About Dec. 15, the writer received a message to come and anoint her. Taking with me Eld. Geo. E. Wise, of North Yakima, we started on our journey – a distance of nearly five hundred miles, reaching there in time to administer the anointing on the morning of the 17th. We found Sister Reitz strong in the faith, and ready for the service.
While the anointing did not restore her to health, it was effectual in bringing to her a comfort, peace of mind, and resignation that she could not have had otherwise. A few days later Bro. Reitz started with her to Rochester, Minn., to the hospital of the Mayo Brothers, surgeons of national fame, only to find that they, with all their experience and skill, were powerless to locate her trouble or to give relief. While Sister Reitz was anxious to recover, and to be spared to her husband and two children, yet she was resigned to the Father’s will, and yielded to the summons on the 9th inst., at the hospital in Rochester, Minn. Her remains were brought to Missoula, where the funeral was held in the M. E. Church on the 16th inst., at 2 P. M., by the writer, assisted by the M. E. and Congregational ministers, from the words of Rev. 14: 13.
Sister Reitz, whose maiden name was Laura Bell Thomson, was born in Putnam County, Ind., April 30, 1866, making her age at the time of her death, forty-six years, nine months and twenty-one days. She was not only possessed of excellent qualities as a mother, but as a Christian. She had that self-forgetting and self-sacrificing spirit for the comfort and pleasure of others that made her a host of friends, both in and out of the school. Her place in the home and the school will be hard to fill.
The immediate relatives of both Brother and Sister Reitz live in Iowa, and while they were present, at her bedside, at the time of her death, besides the husband and little daughter, members of both families, yet none were present at the funeral except the bereaved husband, son and daughter.
Bro. Reitz and the two children deserve the prayers and sympathies of the church. May the Father in his mercy richly sustain them, is our prayer.
D. B. Eby
Jan. 20
Obituary provided by Rebecca Brubaker Freeman (#47513221)
THE PASSING OF SISTER E. C. REITZ.
About twenty years ago, Prof. E. C. Reitz and wife moved from Boone County, Iowa, to Anaconda, Montana, where they engaged in school-teaching for about six months. Later in the same year they moved to Missoula in the same State, where they founded, and successfully conducted the Garden City Commercial College. For about ten years they stood aloof from any church relations. Though often conscious of their duty to their God, and sometimes keenly convicted, they could not decide on uniting with any of the churches of Missoula, without first giving themselves to a thorough investigation of the Word, and then to decide accordingly.
After deciding that the Church of the Brethren came nearest the apostolic church, the writer received a letter from them, requesting some one to come and administer baptism. In accordance with this request Eld. J. U. G. Stiverson and wife were sent under the direction of the Mission Board. The applicants were duly baptized and received into the church – the first to be baptized into the Church of the Brethren in the State of Montana. The above baptism took place in 1902. For ten years more they continued in the school work, though at a disadvantage religiously, being isolated from the church all these years.
In the latter part of last November, Sister Reitz was taken sick. The doctor was called but was unable to locate the malady. Other doctors were called in consultation, until six doctors had exhausted their skill without any success. About Dec. 15, the writer received a message to come and anoint her. Taking with me Eld. Geo. E. Wise, of North Yakima, we started on our journey – a distance of nearly five hundred miles, reaching there in time to administer the anointing on the morning of the 17th. We found Sister Reitz strong in the faith, and ready for the service.
While the anointing did not restore her to health, it was effectual in bringing to her a comfort, peace of mind, and resignation that she could not have had otherwise. A few days later Bro. Reitz started with her to Rochester, Minn., to the hospital of the Mayo Brothers, surgeons of national fame, only to find that they, with all their experience and skill, were powerless to locate her trouble or to give relief. While Sister Reitz was anxious to recover, and to be spared to her husband and two children, yet she was resigned to the Father’s will, and yielded to the summons on the 9th inst., at the hospital in Rochester, Minn. Her remains were brought to Missoula, where the funeral was held in the M. E. Church on the 16th inst., at 2 P. M., by the writer, assisted by the M. E. and Congregational ministers, from the words of Rev. 14: 13.
Sister Reitz, whose maiden name was Laura Bell Thomson, was born in Putnam County, Ind., April 30, 1866, making her age at the time of her death, forty-six years, nine months and twenty-one days. She was not only possessed of excellent qualities as a mother, but as a Christian. She had that self-forgetting and self-sacrificing spirit for the comfort and pleasure of others that made her a host of friends, both in and out of the school. Her place in the home and the school will be hard to fill.
The immediate relatives of both Brother and Sister Reitz live in Iowa, and while they were present, at her bedside, at the time of her death, besides the husband and little daughter, members of both families, yet none were present at the funeral except the bereaved husband, son and daughter.
Bro. Reitz and the two children deserve the prayers and sympathies of the church. May the Father in his mercy richly sustain them, is our prayer.
D. B. Eby
Jan. 20
Obituary provided by Rebecca Brubaker Freeman (#47513221)
Obituary published in The Gospel Messenger, February 8, 1913, page 96:
THE PASSING OF SISTER E. C. REITZ.
About twenty years ago, Prof. E. C. Reitz and wife moved from Boone County, Iowa, to Anaconda, Montana, where they engaged in school-teaching for about six months. Later in the same year they moved to Missoula in the same State, where they founded, and successfully conducted the Garden City Commercial College. For about ten years they stood aloof from any church relations. Though often conscious of their duty to their God, and sometimes keenly convicted, they could not decide on uniting with any of the churches of Missoula, without first giving themselves to a thorough investigation of the Word, and then to decide accordingly.
After deciding that the Church of the Brethren came nearest the apostolic church, the writer received a letter from them, requesting some one to come and administer baptism. In accordance with this request Eld. J. U. G. Stiverson and wife were sent under the direction of the Mission Board. The applicants were duly baptized and received into the church – the first to be baptized into the Church of the Brethren in the State of Montana. The above baptism took place in 1902. For ten years more they continued in the school work, though at a disadvantage religiously, being isolated from the church all these years.
In the latter part of last November, Sister Reitz was taken sick. The doctor was called but was unable to locate the malady. Other doctors were called in consultation, until six doctors had exhausted their skill without any success. About Dec. 15, the writer received a message to come and anoint her. Taking with me Eld. Geo. E. Wise, of North Yakima, we started on our journey – a distance of nearly five hundred miles, reaching there in time to administer the anointing on the morning of the 17th. We found Sister Reitz strong in the faith, and ready for the service.
While the anointing did not restore her to health, it was effectual in bringing to her a comfort, peace of mind, and resignation that she could not have had otherwise. A few days later Bro. Reitz started with her to Rochester, Minn., to the hospital of the Mayo Brothers, surgeons of national fame, only to find that they, with all their experience and skill, were powerless to locate her trouble or to give relief. While Sister Reitz was anxious to recover, and to be spared to her husband and two children, yet she was resigned to the Father’s will, and yielded to the summons on the 9th inst., at the hospital in Rochester, Minn. Her remains were brought to Missoula, where the funeral was held in the M. E. Church on the 16th inst., at 2 P. M., by the writer, assisted by the M. E. and Congregational ministers, from the words of Rev. 14: 13.
Sister Reitz, whose maiden name was Laura Bell Thomson, was born in Putnam County, Ind., April 30, 1866, making her age at the time of her death, forty-six years, nine months and twenty-one days. She was not only possessed of excellent qualities as a mother, but as a Christian. She had that self-forgetting and self-sacrificing spirit for the comfort and pleasure of others that made her a host of friends, both in and out of the school. Her place in the home and the school will be hard to fill.
The immediate relatives of both Brother and Sister Reitz live in Iowa, and while they were present, at her bedside, at the time of her death, besides the husband and little daughter, members of both families, yet none were present at the funeral except the bereaved husband, son and daughter.
Bro. Reitz and the two children deserve the prayers and sympathies of the church. May the Father in his mercy richly sustain them, is our prayer.
D. B. Eby
Jan. 20
Obituary provided by Rebecca Brubaker Freeman (#47513221)
THE PASSING OF SISTER E. C. REITZ.
About twenty years ago, Prof. E. C. Reitz and wife moved from Boone County, Iowa, to Anaconda, Montana, where they engaged in school-teaching for about six months. Later in the same year they moved to Missoula in the same State, where they founded, and successfully conducted the Garden City Commercial College. For about ten years they stood aloof from any church relations. Though often conscious of their duty to their God, and sometimes keenly convicted, they could not decide on uniting with any of the churches of Missoula, without first giving themselves to a thorough investigation of the Word, and then to decide accordingly.
After deciding that the Church of the Brethren came nearest the apostolic church, the writer received a letter from them, requesting some one to come and administer baptism. In accordance with this request Eld. J. U. G. Stiverson and wife were sent under the direction of the Mission Board. The applicants were duly baptized and received into the church – the first to be baptized into the Church of the Brethren in the State of Montana. The above baptism took place in 1902. For ten years more they continued in the school work, though at a disadvantage religiously, being isolated from the church all these years.
In the latter part of last November, Sister Reitz was taken sick. The doctor was called but was unable to locate the malady. Other doctors were called in consultation, until six doctors had exhausted their skill without any success. About Dec. 15, the writer received a message to come and anoint her. Taking with me Eld. Geo. E. Wise, of North Yakima, we started on our journey – a distance of nearly five hundred miles, reaching there in time to administer the anointing on the morning of the 17th. We found Sister Reitz strong in the faith, and ready for the service.
While the anointing did not restore her to health, it was effectual in bringing to her a comfort, peace of mind, and resignation that she could not have had otherwise. A few days later Bro. Reitz started with her to Rochester, Minn., to the hospital of the Mayo Brothers, surgeons of national fame, only to find that they, with all their experience and skill, were powerless to locate her trouble or to give relief. While Sister Reitz was anxious to recover, and to be spared to her husband and two children, yet she was resigned to the Father’s will, and yielded to the summons on the 9th inst., at the hospital in Rochester, Minn. Her remains were brought to Missoula, where the funeral was held in the M. E. Church on the 16th inst., at 2 P. M., by the writer, assisted by the M. E. and Congregational ministers, from the words of Rev. 14: 13.
Sister Reitz, whose maiden name was Laura Bell Thomson, was born in Putnam County, Ind., April 30, 1866, making her age at the time of her death, forty-six years, nine months and twenty-one days. She was not only possessed of excellent qualities as a mother, but as a Christian. She had that self-forgetting and self-sacrificing spirit for the comfort and pleasure of others that made her a host of friends, both in and out of the school. Her place in the home and the school will be hard to fill.
The immediate relatives of both Brother and Sister Reitz live in Iowa, and while they were present, at her bedside, at the time of her death, besides the husband and little daughter, members of both families, yet none were present at the funeral except the bereaved husband, son and daughter.
Bro. Reitz and the two children deserve the prayers and sympathies of the church. May the Father in his mercy richly sustain them, is our prayer.
D. B. Eby
Jan. 20
Obituary provided by Rebecca Brubaker Freeman (#47513221)
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