Harry J. Hurst (1890-1918)

HURST, ROBINSON, RIGGS, HUNTER

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 1/11/2009 at 21:42:44

Jackson Sentinel
December 17, 1918

Harry J. Hurst Stricken Down in Vigorous Young Manhood
Death Follows Several Days’ Illness with Pneumonia – Funeral Held at 2 O’clock Sunday Afternoon

Sometime when all of life’s lessons have been learned; when the sun and stars shall have forever set, these things o’er which we grieve will flash before us we will clearly see how all God’s plans were right, and how what seems to us today a reproof will be but the fulfillment of love most true. Mingled with life’s sweet wine we find the wormwood, but a wiser hand than ours has poured out this portion for our lips to sip, and oft-times the sable pall of death conceals the fairest boom His love can send. We cannot today understand why Harry Hurst was taken from our midst; we, faint hearts and feeble arms, must rest content with a a nine decree. God’s plans, like lines pure and white unfold we must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, time will reveal the golden calyxes, and we shall understand.

With a world of promise just ahead glittering in all its panoramic beauty, Harry looked thru the windows of a happy home, gladdened by wife and little ones, to see the picture of a long, happy future. But this silvery stream of hope which overflowed his soul has flowed, on, yet a consciousness remains with the dear ones and friends left that cannot die. Deposited on the silent shore of memory there are images and precious thoughts of the bygone happy hours and days when Harry was with us, mingling his kindness with the needs of the poor and afflicted; blending good cheer into the lives of those who might meet with reverse or misfortune. Bet in the rainbow hues of the Someday the mists which hide much from our vision here shall clear away and we will stand on the heaven-kissed heights and there and then, and only there and then, we’ll understand and in symphonic unison say “Well Done.”

Obituary

Harry J. Hurst, youngest son of the late Hon., and Mrs. Alfred A. Hurst, was born at Hurstville, Iowa, May 27, 1890 and passed away at his home there about four o’clock last Friday morning, death following several days’ illness with pneumonia. He attended the high school in our city and since that time has been associated with the Hurst Lime Company as bookkeeper and assistant manager. On June 30, 1915, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucile Robinson of this city, and to this union was born two children. Marion, aged two and one half years, and Harry K., aged about one year, who with the bereaved young wife and mother mourn their untimely loss. Harry, by his jovial disposition and courteous, generous ways, had made hosts of friends throughout the community who keenly feel his loss. He was an honored member of the K. of P., D. O. K. K., M. W. A. and Elks orders. Besides his wife and little ones, he is survived by three brothers, Abraham, Will and Charles of this city; and two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Riggs of Maquoketa and Mrs. Bradford Hunter of Waterloo, Ia. The funeral was held from the late home in Hurstville Sunday afternoon, Rev. H. C. Boissier officiating. Interment was made in the family lot in Mt. Hope cemetery.