Dodge, Henry Richard (1846-1926)

DODGE, BARR, JENKINSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/15/2023 at 16:27:24

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Wednesday, April 14, 1926

H.R. DODGE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY

Prominent Citizen Passes Away Quietly at His Home at 717 Walnut Street

Had Been Resident of the City Since the Year 1869

H.R. Dodge died suddenly at ? o'clock this morning at the family home at 717 Walnut Street. He had been in poor health for a year. The funeral will be held at the home Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. W.H. Garfield, of the Baptist church.

Mr. Dodge suffered a light stroke of paralysis a year ago in February since which time his health has been poor. Last fall he had an attack of acute indigestion and some six weeks ago suffered an attack of the flu. He did not sleep well last night and shortly before 2 o'clock asked to get up. He rose from the bed unassisted and sat down in a chair, where he quietly and without warning died.

Mr. Dodge would have been ? years of age had he lived until next fall. He was born in New Boston, N.H., and as a young man came to Webster City in 1869. He was married 51 years ago. In 1880 he established the monument firm in this city, that later became Dodge and Baker and just recently Dodge & Sons. He had been almost a life long member of the Baptist church. He taught school for a time upon first coming to the city and later held the Singer sewing machine agency. In the monument business he had been a partner of G.W. Baker of Eagle Grove for 46 years.

He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, one daughter, Mrs. C.O. Barr of this city, and three sons, Warren B., of this city, Byard of Des Moines and John, recently of Los Angeles but who has just come to Webster City to be associated with W.B. in the monument business.

Henry Dodge was a good man in every sense of the word. As husband, father and neighbor he measured up to the full standard expected of the best and in all the relations of life he filled his place in a befitting manner. He will be missed among the business interests of the city, of which he had been a part for more than half a century, in his church where he was active and loyal, in his home where the best that was in him shown in ? of kindness and generosity, and in the community where he filled well the place of good citizen, one interested in the welfare and material and moral advancement of the town he had chosen in which to live and work. Like a sheaf of golden grain, fully ripened and ready for the harvest, he succumbed to the reaper of time at the end of a well spent life and has gone to the reward vouchsafed to the good and true.

The genuine sympathy of the entire community will go out to the family and friends in this the hour of their bereavement and irreparable loss, and a wide circle of neighbors and acquaintances will gather at his bier to pay the respect the living owe to the dead.

[several spots in the obituary were hard to decipher so I put in question marks]

[his wife was Galatea Jenkinson]