Ralph B. Thomason

GOLDSBERRY, KOST, STRUB, THOMASON, WESTFALL

Posted By: Cheryl FREES WESTFALL (email)
Date: 1/22/2003 at 00:09:47

R. B. Thomason dies With But Brief Warning
Iowa City Press Citizen
8 March 1923

Mr. Ralph B. Thomason passed away lst evening at 5:15 o'clock, at the home of his brother, Allen, near West Liberty, after a very brief illness.
He was the victim of pneumonia and was stricken while at the bedside of his brother who was ill.
The remains have been brought to Iowa City, and are at Schneider Bros. Undertaking Parlors where the funeral will be held Saturday morning at 9.
Mr. Thomason's young widow and two children, Edward, aged 6; and Genevieve, aged three, survive. His wife was Miss Rena Strub. She was called to her husband's bedside Monday and remainned with him to the end. To her has come an exceptionally bitter series of sorrows. During the last year -- indeed, in the period of but five months, in that time she has lost, through death, her mother, Mrs. Catherine Strub, and hew nephew, Master Lawrence Strub. Other near relatives surviving are Mr. Thomason's aging father, at Greenville, Ill; and four brothers and two sisters - Walter of New Boston, Ill; Allen, West Liberty; Lawrence and Richard, Davenport; and Mesdames Eli Holliday, Conesville, Iowa; and L.P. Foster, Centerdale.
Mr. Thomason was born near Columbus Junction, and would have been 29 had he lived until May.
He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and the Knights of Pythias and was highly esteemed in these brotherhoods and elsewhere in Iowa City and wherever he was known. An honest, upright, and diligent young man, he had many friends, who will be terribly shocked by his sudden and untimely death.