Tool, Luella May 1881-1920

TOOL, WOOD, JONES, PORTER, STILLWELL, HOUGHMAN

Posted By: Michel Tool Daniels (email)
Date: 8/31/2004 at 18:36:54

The Jasper County Mirror
OBITUARY OF MISS MAY TOOL
Luella May Tool, only daughter of Chas. W.G. Tool and Corilla A. Tool, was born Feb. 18, 1881. Her early years were spent on her father's farm four miles northeast of Monroe. She and her two brothers, Marvin and Elmer, were faithful attendants at Sunday school and the church services at Tool's Chapel. May was organist for a number of years and could always be depended upon to do her share. In 1908 May and her parents left the farm and located in Bondurant. She accepted the position of telephone operator there and creditably filled that place for ten years. She acquired in that time a host of friends. Her voice was ever kind and congenial to her patrons on the wires. No sharp wor5ds ever escaped her lips in her ten years of service as operator. In August of 1917, while still in Bondurant her father passed to the beyond leaving May and her mother alone. May continued her work until the next spring when she and her mother moved to Monroe, where they have since resided. She confessed her faith in Jesus Christ at the Christian Church while in Bondurant, although she was always a constant and faithful follower of the Great Teacher. May was a homebody, always busy, her every thought was to do and help. Her mother is blessed with the remembrance of a daughter who was ever a sweet and tender companion. No cross word ever passed May's lips to her mother, and no frown ever darkened her serene and open countenance. What a blessed inheritance to leave her mother. For a number of years May had been a member of the Rebekah and Royal Neighbor Lodges of Bondurant. May, for some time, had been in ill health which culminated on Tuesday evening, July 6, 1920,in a severe illness. Her condition grew rapidly worse until Saturday night, July 10 at 9:30 when she passed to the other side. She leaves to mourn her loss her mother and two brothers, Elmer of Cudworth, Canada, and Marvin, of Newton, Iowa, along with her more distant relatives and friends. The funeral was held at the M.E. Church in Monroe Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Barnstable, who talked from the 19the Psalm, the twelfth verse:” So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." The body laid to rest in the Monroe cemetery beside her father. Relatives from out of town attending the funeral were: Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, of Angus; Mrs. Floy Jones, Mrs. J. W. Porter, Mrs. Elis Stillwell, of Des Moines, Mrs. Ester Houghman, of Fort Dodge. Elmer was unable to attend the funeral because the telegrams sent him were delayed in transit and reached him too late. Card of Thanks. We thank the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in our bereavement, who so lavishly supplied such beautiful flowers, also the Bondurant friends for their beautiful flowers and Ankeny friends and telephone boys and girls of Newton and relatives from Des Moines and our neighbors, friends and relatives in and around Monroe and other places Mrs. C. A. Tool and Sons