Mrs. L. W. (Emma Caroline) Rich

RICH, ARBEGUST, NEILS, MEAD, FOSTER, EHLER, WHITNEY, THOMPSON, ROGERS, TROWER, SCHARFF

Posted By: Colleen Arbegust Smith (email)
Date: 3/21/2007 at 11:19:32

Independence Conservative
Independence, Iowa
19 January 1929

LAMONT
 Mrs. L. W. Rich

Emma Caroline Arbegust Rich was born in Delaware County, Oct. 7, 1860, and passed away at the Iowa Lutheran hospital in Des Moines, January 2, 1929, at 6 P. M., at the age of 68 years, 2 months and 25 days. She was united in marriage: to Leonard W. Rich Sept. 1st, 1880. To this union were born 6 children. Baby Earl who passed away at the age of 14 months.  

She is survived by her husband, L. W. Rich, two sons, Lloyd D. Rich and Louis M. Rich, three daughters, Mrs. Stella Neils and Mrs. Myrtle Foster of Des Moines and Mrs. Lilah Mead of Siloam Springs, Ark., and 7 grandchildren and many relatives and friends who will sorrow.

 She confessed her faith in the Lord when she was 18 years of age and united with the Free Baptist church and was a faithful member for many years. In 1924, March 9th, she, together with her husband, united with the Union Park church of Christ, of Des Moines. Her faith, her love, her fellowship will linger like the memory.. of a sweet dream. Her life was an open book, she concealed nothing. Her life was the summing up of all that was womanly. She believed that charity should hold scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. She raised herself, helping others. She lived a clean and thoughtful life. She understood the meaning of hard work. She added to the sum of human joy. She died as she lived without a murmur, without a ripple, she passed into that waterless ocean of eternal peace and on her brow has fallen the golden dawning of a grander day. She has left us with her wealth of thought, her wings of peace, her virtuous deeds, her love and universal joy that is an monument that the corroding tooth of time and decay will not moulder away.

 Services were held in Des Moines Friday and the, body brought to Lamont Saturday. Services were held at the Baptist church at 2:30 P. M. in charge of the pastor, Rev. B. A. Rust, assisted by Rev. Walter Mead, of Silvean Springs Ark. Music was furnished by Mrs. T. W. Rogers and John Young with Mrs. John Ehler at the piano.

The casket bearers were J. W. Trower, T. W. Rogers, E. M. Whitney, Elliott Wing, John Elliott and J. D. Thompson, the burial was in the Campton cemetery. The relatives from out of town who attended the funeral were: her husband, L. W. Rich, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foster, of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mead of Silvan Springs, Arkansas, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Scharff, of Oelwein. The sympathy of their many friends is extended to Mr. Rich and family in their bereavement.