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Robert B. Gable

GABLE, PFEIFER, CAPAROON

Posted By: Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/8/2018 at 18:35:26

Wapello Republican, April 25, 1935, page 1

Robert Barton Gable, son of Thomas and Amanda (Pfeifer) Gable, was born at Wapello, Iowa, Oct. 26, 1889, and passed from this earthly life at Independence, Iowa, at 5 o'clock a.m. Sunday, April 21, 1935, aged 45 years, 5 months, and 25 days.

The immediate cause of his death was tuberculosis, from which he had suffered for six years, being in a sanitarium during this time, and confined to his bed the past year.

On Friday, April 12, his sister, Mrs. Myrtle Caparoon of this place, received a telegram to come at once, that her brother was dying. The following Sunday, April 14, in company with another brother, Chas. Gable of Cedar Rapids, she visited the sick man. On their departure they promised to visit him again on Easter Sunday. During the following week his sister wrote him a comforting letter, repeating the promise to visit him again.

Very early Easter morning, Mrs. Caparoon left for Cedar Rapids where she was joined by her brother, taking with them flowers, fruits and other delicacies for the sick man, also copies of the Wapello Republican and a picture of the deceased mother and brother that he had asked for. They stopped at an oil station and were told there was a telephone call for them. It proved to be an announcement of their brother's death, which had occurred at 5 o'clock that morning. It came as a terrible shock to them, as they hoped that they might be permitted to be with him and comfort and cheer him once more, but God, who doeth all things well, in His loving kindness and tender mercy, called him to eternal rest and joy in Heaven.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother and one brother, Jesse. He is survived by his brother, Chas. Gable of Cedar Rapids, his sister, Mrs. Myrtle Caparoon of Wapello, three nephews and four nieces.

The body was brought to Wapello, where funeral services were held from the Caparoon home on Monday afternoon by the Rev. Jesse Huddle. Mr. and Mrs. Huddlesang "Face to Face" and "The Beautiful River" and Mrs. Albert Knight and Mrs. R. R. Wood sang "Sometime We'll Understand."

The pallbearers were: Marion Barnes, Ray Adams, Floyd Smith, Albert Knight, Ellard Gore and Jesse Ives.

He was laid to rest in Wapello's beautiful city of the dead.


 

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