Garrett, James Donald 1863 - 1917

GARRETT, CAWARD, LOBDELL, HAVEN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:28

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer July 13, 1917, FP C6

OBITUARY.
GARRETT
Many of our people were saddened on Monday to learn of the sudden death of James Donald Garrett, a former resident of this city, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Lobdell, 259 Worth Ave., Elgin, Illinois. Mr. Garrett, whose home was at 11021 Church St., Chicago, was known to practically every real estate man in the city of Chicago through his long years of service in the guarantee department of the Chicago Title and Trust Company. He was regarded as a citizen and neighbor of unusual qualities by all who knew him. Before Morgan Park became a part of Chicago, Mr. Garrett took a prominent part in the affairs of the village, served on the school board, and was a member of many fraternal organizations.
He had been in poor health for some months, but on July 4th felt well enough to make a motor trip with his brother, Albert, to Elgin, and shortly after his arrival at the home of his sister, was taken seriously ill and grew steadily worse, death occurring at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He is survived by a widow, Edith (nee Edith Caward of Cresco) and one son, John Caward Garrett, both of whom reside at 11021 Church St., Chicago, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Garret, former residents of Cresco, now living in Elgin, Illinois, three brothers, Alec now a resident of Owatonna, Minn., William of Sioux City, Iowa, and Albert of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. DeWitt Haven of Harlowtown, Montana, and Mrs. Charles Lobdell of Elgin.
Funeral services were held at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the Lobdell residence in Elgin, and the same evening the bereaved widow and sorrowing son, accompanied by relatives, left for Cresco where interment was made on Thursday.
Born at Finch, Ontario, Canada, September 16, 1863, Mr. Garrett came with his parents to Cresco in 1866, and it was here that his early boyhood and young manhood was spent. Some years later Mr. Garrett located in Arkansas City, Kansas, where he was assistant cashier in the First National Bank of that city. He returned to Cresco to wed Edith Caward, oldest daughter of J. B. Caward, and for a time the two made their home in Arkansas City, later removing to Chicago where Mr. Garrett became interested in the real estate business. His rise in this field was remarkable and he was so successful that it was not long before he was offered an attractive position with the Chicago Title and Trust Company, the largest concern of its kind in the world. This post Mr. Garrett held up to the time of his death. For the past year or more Mr. Garrett had been in poor health and though treated by the best of physicians he continued to fail, though his death came as a surprise to all.
Mr. Garrett numbered his friends by the thousands. He was known to be a loving husband, a kind and indulgent father, a citizen whose influence tended for the betterment of any community in which he resided. To know him was to admire and respect him. His loss will be deeply felt by all who fell within the pathway of his life. Hundreds and hundreds of friends in Chicogo{sic}, Elgin and Cresco unite in extending their heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved widow and sorrowing son. In the words of more than one acquaintance “James Garrett was a man in a thousand”

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he died July 8, 1917. He is buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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