HAGUE, Nellie M. 1887 - 1927

HAGUE, BATES, SHANSTROM, ENLOW

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/18/2006 at 12:57:39

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Friday, August 26, 1927
Page FIVE, Column 2

... --Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE underwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday afternoon at the Jefferson County hospital and is getting along as well as could be expected. ...

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Monday, August 29, 1927
Page FIVE, Column 2

... --The condition of Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE at the Jefferson County hospital is very serious. ...

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, August 30, 1927
Front Page, Column 2

MRS. C. P. HAGUE DIED LAST NIGHT

Passed Away At the Jefferson County Hospital, Following An Operation

Msr. Nelle B. HAGUE, wife of Clarence P. HAGUE, died last night at seven o'clock at the Jefferson County Hospital following an operation Thursday afternoon.

Funeral services have not yet been arranged, pending word from relatives at a distance. But they will be held at the home, 607 North Fourth street, and will be private. Please omit flowers.

The news of Mrs. HAGUE's death came as a great shock to her friends last night, although they had been warned in the afternoon that hope was dwindling.

Mrs. HAGUE was born in Jefferson county, January 11, 1887, and lived all her life in the county. She attended the public schools, graduating from the High school in 1905. She then went to the Iowa State Teachers' college at Cedar Falls, and afterwards taught school for a time.

She was married to Mr. HAGUE, June 26, 1912, at Smith Center, Kansas, at the home of her uncle. They built a home here and settled down to married life, but she felt an intense desire for higher education, and entered Parsons college, being graduated in 1923. As a commencement present, her husband gave her a course leading to a Master's degree in any college she might select, and she chose Radcliff, the woman's department of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass., doing the two years work necessary in one year and taking her degree with honors.

Following her course at Radcliff, she went to Sterling, Kansas, to take the chair of English in Sterling college to fill out the unexpired term of a teacher on vacation, and was so great a success that she was offered a permanent position there at the head of that department.

She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Isaac SHANSTROM and Mrs. Grant ENLOW and a brother, Victor BATES.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, August 31, 1927
Page FIVE, Column 2

RELATIVES ARE ON WAY HERE FOR RITES FOR MRS. C. P. HAGUE

Relatives living on the Pacific coast are now on their way here for the funeral of Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE, according to telegrams received today by Mr. HAGUE. While the word was not definite, it is understood that those in the party are Mr. and Mrs. Fred CALLISTER and Vernon L. HAGUE.

If they make good connections, they will reach here at 9 oclock Saturday morning. In which case the funeral, which will be private, will be held at the residence, 607 North Fourth street, Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Weekly-Ledger Journal"
Thursday, September 1, 1927
Page 7, Column 1

MRS. C. P. HAGUE DIED LAST NIGHT (sic)

Passed Away At the Jefferson County Hospital, Following An Operation

From Tuesday's Ledger--

Mrs. Nelle B. HAGUE, wife of Clarence P. HAGUE, died last night at seven o'clock at the Jefferson County Hospital following an operation Thursday afternoon.

Funeral services have not yet been arranged pending word from relatives at a distance. But they will be held from the home, 607 North Fourth street, and will be private. Please omit flowers.

The news of Mrs. HAGUE's death came as a great shock to her friends last night, although they had been warned in the afternoon that hope was dwindling.

Mrs. HAGUE was born in Jefferson county, January 11, 1887, and lived all her life in the county. She attended the public schools, graduating from the High school in 1905. She then went to the Iowa State Teachers' college at Cedar Falls, and afterwards taught school for a time.

She was married to Mr. HAGUE, June 26, 1912, at Smith Center, Kansas, at the home of her uncle. They built a home here and settled down to married life, but she felt an instense desire for a higher education, and entered Parsons college, being graduated in 1923. As a commencement present, her husband gave her a course leading to a Master's degree to any college she might select, and she chose Radcliff, the woman's department of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass., doing the two years work necessary in one year and taking her degree with honors.

Following her course at Radcliff, she went to Sterling, Kansas, to take the chair of English in Sterling college to fill out the unexpired term of a teacher on vacation, and was so great a success that she was offered a permanent position there at the head of that department.

She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Isaac SHANSTROM and Mrs. Grant ENLOW and a brother, Victor BATES.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Friday, September 2, 1927
Front Page, Column 2

RITES TOMORROW FOR MRS. HAGUE

Funeral Services At 4 O'clock At Family Home, 607 North Fourth Street

Funeral services for Mrs. Calrence P. HAGUE, who died Monday night, today were definitely set for tomorrow afternoon at 4 oclock at the home, 607 North Fourth street. Word was received here today from Mr. and Mrs. Fred CALLISTER of Albany, Ore., on route here for the rites, that they had reached Pocatello, Idaho, and would make connections that would bring them into Fairfield at 9:21 oclock tomorrow morning. Vernon L. HAGUE was not able to make the trip, it has been learned.

The funeral will be private and will be in charge of Dr. Gilbert Voorhies, minister of the First Presbyterian church. The appreciation will be delivered by Dean Carl C. Guise of Parsons college, and Rev. William Roberts, also of the college, will offer the prayer. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, September 3, 1927
Page SIX, Column 2

... --Mr. and Mrs. Fred CALLISTER arrived this morning from Albany, Ore., having been called here by the death of Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE.

--Judge L. W. HAGUE of Minden, Nebr., arrived to day for the funeral of Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE. ...

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Tuesday, September 6, 1927
Front Page, Column 6, and
Page EIGHT, Column 6

MRS. HAGUE IS LAID TO REST

Impressive Ceremonies Were Held from Family Home Saturday Afternoon

Solemn and impressive funeral services for Mrs. Clarence P. HAGUE were held at the family residence, 607 North Fourth street, Saturday afternoon. The funeral was private and friends and relatives packed the home to pay their tribute to a woman cut off in her prime.

The services were in charge of Dr. Gilbert Voorhies, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who read the Scripture lesson. Dean Carl C. Guise of Parsons college, under whom Mrs. HAGUE took her philosophy at Parsons, delivered a beautiful appreciation of her life and character. Percy J. Easton fulfilled a long-time request of Mrs. HAGUE when he sang as a solo "Lead, Kindly Light", and Miss Cora Ball and Mrs. L. W. Van Nostrand sang "The Far Away Home of the Soul". Rev. William Roberts of Parsons college delivered the prayer.

Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.

Dean Guise, in his tribute, said:

When an old man or an old woman dies, the world is rich; but when a young woman dies, the world is very poor indeed. When one stands in the presence of death and tries to be its interpreter, if he speaks for one who is old, his words need but measure attainments and achievements. He may tell of deeds that have been done, of great tasks accomplished and rich gifts left to a world. He thereby recounts a sort of triumph and there can be something of defiance in asking, 'Oh, death, where is thy sting? "Oh grave, where is thy victory?" But when one would speak for those who have died with the vigor of the life unabated and the brilliance of the mind undulled, his words can not be other than the somewhat pathetic recounting of work yet to be done, of attempts yet to be achieved, and tasks fallen unfinished from strong hands. "The pitcher is broken at the fountain and the wheel is broken at the cistern.

The picture of death long seen in art, is that of an old man whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes, are the very image of loss and desolation. Often we see old men and old women, whose friends have gone long before them, who seem somehow,, not to have kept up with the world. Their whole life has become something of a burden and they seem to meet in rather happy, genial, fellowship wit hthis (sic) old bearer of the scythe. In middle life and in youth, he seems an intruder, forlorn and ugly. It seems that he ought to stay away.

Today we have none of this comfort. Here is one in her very prime who seemed only to have begun a life of rather unique and unusual achievement. Mrs. HAGUE's scholastic records bears testimony to an intellectual power, very much more than that of an ordinary student. She was able to get values out of her work as a student and scholar. She loved hard problems. She sounded the depths of philosophy with very exceptional insight. She met the great problems of life with rather unusual discernment. She saw the fallacies of logic readily. She saw through the intracacies of any involved reasoning. She never did consent to do any work in an ordinary fashion, nothing less than her very best satisfied her at all. No work was ever left as finished, that did not bear throughout the marks of genuine excellence. All that she wrote was touched with a certain brilliance and the dullest of subjects was lightened by her ready and skillful treatment.

She enjoyed greatly the fellowship with scholars, and they too recognized her very exceptional work. Her college course was finished with great honor, and her master's degree was received in the minimum time, as a mark of its distinction. This depth of insight and brilliance of expression, reveals something of the soul of a poet. Two days ago I read little snatches from some beautiful poems she had written, poems that perhaps no other has ever read. They were beautiful in diction as well as in thought. I can not but feel after reading them that somehow she understood far better than any of us the meaning of life's tragedies.

In one little lyric especially, did she picture the liveliness and the freshness of spring; The growth and the bloom of summer, and then the fruitage and the maturity of autumn. How beautiful her poem describes just such scenes as are prevalent now. The fading flowers, the first of the falling leaves,, the birds setting up their first migration. There is all of the solemnity of departing life and the sorrow of a fading loveliness. How perfect it fits the mood of this hour, when we too are thinking of a life that has just been begun the years of best achievement, something of youth's freedom from care is gone and the seriousness of mature life has set in. It is just as at the end of summer and the early autumn of the year, when nature seems to yield up her life and enter into the quiet and the stillness of a lonely winter, so has she entered into the marvel and the mystery of death's unending sleep.

The tragic thought in her poem, is this, that the same end must sometime come to us all, and its note of perfect hope is in the statement, "God knows." If there are magic words by which our suffering might be put away, it would not be fitting to utter them even now, for the Dear Companion of our hearts suffered and was made perfect thereby. There is a wonder in His grace that takes of all these bitter experiences of th (sic) hour and resolves them by its refining fire into very dear and very precious memories, that shall come back again throughout the years to touch our lives with beauty and to still their longings with the quiet loveliness of peace.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot 2nd.035. Husband Clarence died 30 years later, in 1957, and is buried with her.