George Shannon Monn

MONN, PRATT, MCKEE, METCALF

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 12/20/2016 at 23:53:25

Cedar Rapids Tribune Friday February 3, 1911
Philosophical and cheerful to the last, with a smile upon his face and a lingering hand-clasp for his sorrowing relatives who surrounded his bedside, George Shannon Monn passed out at Hot Springs at 4:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday. The remains arrived in this city Thursday morning and were taken to the home of a brother-in-law, Mr. Edward Pratt, where the last sad rites will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The pall bearers will be from the typographical union of which he has long been a faithful and consistent member. Interment will be had in Shiloh cemetery on the Center Point road.
George S. Monn was born in Cedar Rapids in 1880 and was thirty-one years of age at the time of his death. He was a student of the public schools and a graduate of the high school. After completing his studies he entered the employe of the Metcalf Printing company where he learned in all its details the art of printing. Later he made a tour of the country and visited many cities in the north, west and south-west. During this trip he became a lincotype operator. Later he drifted into newspaper work and successfully managed three weekly papers in Iowa. Up until the time of his failure in health he was connected with the Optimus of this city as business manager and local editor. It was along in the fall of last year that he was compelled to give up his duties and place himself under the care of a physician. Being by nature of a philosophical disposition he had calmly realized and reasoned out the possibilities of recovery. While the odds were ever against him he never abandoned hope or lost his air of cheerfulness and good fellowship. He discussed the present, past and future as things that had been or must be and with the strong will power with which he was gifted refused to worry or permit of anxiety upon the part of his family or his intimate friends who were only limited to those with whom he had come in contact. Intelligent, gentlemanly and thoroughly consistent and upright in his life George Shannon Monn has left the world far better because of his having been a part of it.
Besides his devoted wife he leaves to mourn his loss, his aged father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Monn of Kenwood and three sisters, Mrs. Edward Pratt, Mrs. Harry McKee, and Mrs. Clara Metcalf, the latter being at present in Boston. Also two brothers, Charles W. Monn and Harry Monns.
The members of Typographical union No. 192 will attend the funeral in a body. The executive board has this part of the arrangements in charge and notification of all the details has been carefully attended to.

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