Tuller, Rive Marjory 1894-1913

TULLER, DURNO, OCONNOR, HENDERSON, KNEE, MITTLESTADT, MILNE, GLENN, THIESE, MARKLEY, WASHBURN, MULLIS, GREGG

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 5/12/2007 at 21:52:17

Riva Tuller, 19 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tuller, passed away Tuesday morning in the Dr. Blessin hospital and funeral services are being held this afternoon at the home of her grandfather, John Durno.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated July 21, 1913, from my mother's obituary collection. Submitter has no further information.

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Added by S. Ferrall 5/30/2013:

Obituary - Rive Marjory Tuller
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Tuller of this city, was born in Postville, January 24, 1894, and died at the Blessin Hospital in this city during the early hours of Tuesday morning, July 22, 1913, aged 19 years and six months, death following an operation for appendicitis submitted to several days previous.

All of her brief life was spent here. She was a graduate of Postville High School, Class of 1912, and while never affiliating with any church was a regular attendant at divine services and her sweet and cultured voice was not infrequently heard singing the sacred songs of the Savior of Mankind. Her many noble characteristics of head and heart drew about her an ever increasing host of friends, and those who knew her closest loved her the best.

Friends innumerable mourn her passing, but the poigant pangs of sorrow are most heavy with the father, mother, brother Ralph, and other relatives, whose heads are bowed with a grief almost too great to bear. In times like this human sympathy comforts not, and throught the veil of tears we must look up to the Man of Galilee for strength and support, for he alone can bring to our hearts that peace which surpasseth all understanding.

A newspaper obituary must of necessity be very brief. Margerie's life was short but beautiful. It was a life that comes down to us intensified by the sweep of the ages. There is something grand and supremely inspiring in such a life, so unselfish, so devoted and true to every detail of love and duty. She ever greeted her friends with a pleasant smile and a cheery word of welcome, and passed on.

She made a brave fight with her ailment for life, but proved unequal to the contest. "The good die young," the poet says, and "we stand bereaved." Alas! we feel it sharply, but it is the parents and brother and especially the mother that the crushing weight of grief falls the heaviest on, the bond of maternal love being so stong in the mother. "But into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary." And alas! there comes the vacant chair at the table, the neatly folded and carefully placed articles of the wardrobe, and the vanished hand and the voice that is hushed and still. It is to the parents and brother that our sympathy should extend, for on them falls the burden of sorrow.

One of the most pitiful things of human life is the "might have been" of existence. The poet says:
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest is this, it might have been.

On reflection we think that if perchance the treatment had been varied somewhat in trying to save the suffering one, the results might have been different; but who can tell; perhaps we shall know more of this in the years to come.

In conclusion, I want to say that whatever nature has in store for us at dissolution, and heaven be true, I would gladly join the happy throng to which our loved one has gone and be blessed for aye. And methinks, in imagination I look away to the realms of bliss and high on the portals of paradise I see the loved ones waving their hosannas and beckoning our departed one to hail her welcome home.

Farewell dear soul til death; we cannot call thee back to life, but we can emulate thy virtures and treasure thy memories, and hope for the brighter day.
[signed] D.

The funeral was held from the home of John Durno at 2:30 Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J.F. Childress, pastor of the Congregational church, and the several hundred people there assembled and the many beautiful offerings of flowers were more eloquent tribute to the beauty of the life of the departed than pen could write or tongue could speak. Interment in Postville cemetery.

Relatives from abroad present were - Mr. and Mrs. T.J O'Connor and daughter Isabelle of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Henderson, Helen and Horace Henderson, Miss Alice Henderson and F.C. Knee of Waterloo; Hazel Henderson of St.Paul; Leta and Lela Mittlestadt and E.B. Milne of Oelwein.

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The following friends from away were here yesterday to attend the funeral of Miss Rive Tuller: Miss Alice Glenn and Will Thiese of Oelwein, Earl Markley of Waukon, Miss Irene Washburn and Mrs. May Mullis of McGregor; Guy P. Gregg of Dubuque.

~Postville Review, July 25, 1913
~The obituary was on the front page of the paper & the list of 'friends from away' was in the local items column