Ralph B. Thomason

STRUB, HOLIDAY, FOSTER

Posted By: Greg Strub (email)
Date: 3/22/2010 at 11:55:26

1923 - 8 March - Iowa City Press Citizen

R.B. THOMASON DIES WITH BUT BRIEF WARNING

Mr. Ralph B. Thomason passed away last evening, at 5:15 o'clock, at the home of his brother, Allen, near West Liberty, after a very brief illness.

He was a 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 six; and Genevieve, aged three, survive. His wife was Miss Rena Strub. She was called to her husband's beside Monday, and remained with him to the end. To her has come an exceptionally bitter series of sorrows, during the last year -- indeed, during a period of but five months. In that time, she has lost, through death, her mother, Mrs. Catherine Strub, and her nephew, master Lawrence Strub. Other relatives surviving are Mr. Thomason's aged father, at Greenville, Ill., and four brothers and two sisters -- Walter, New Boston, Ill., Allan, West Liberty; Lawrence and Richard, Davenport; Mesdames Eli Holliday, Conesville, Iowa; and L.P. Foster, of Centerdale.

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