Isaac Ossman (1931)

OSSMAN, LONG, YORK, DIXON, SMALL, KLINE, DABNEY

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 10/20/2006 at 15:47:37

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 1931

Isaac Ossman

Isaac Ossman was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 1861. He passed away at his home at Mark, Iowa, on February 27, 1931, aged sixty-nine years, six months, and fourteen days.

He came to Iowa with his parents in 1868, and they settled near Independence, Iowa. At the age of fourteen years, he was converted and united with the Church of God at Independence. He started preaching at the age of twenty-four and at twenty-seven, he went to Findley College in Ohio for one year. Since that time his life has been devoted to the ministry.

In 1889, he was married to Frances L. Long. To this union were born five children: Lulu May, Orval Glen, Ernest Fay, another daughter, and Frances Eva. Three of the children preceded him in death.

On February 20, he was first taken ill with pneumonia. He never complained nor thought of his own suffering but it was always of others. His mind was on his church work to the very last. His life was wrapped up in building them up. Everyone has said that he never gave up, but worked almost night and day for the upbuilding of his Master’s Kingdom. He knew that there was a crown awaiting him in Glory.

He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, Frances L.; two children, Glen and Eva; daughter-in-law, Mary; four grandchildren, Helen, Dorothy, Dwight and Esther.

Of a family of twelve there are living four brothers: Elias of Panora, Iowa; Joel of Rowley, Iowa; William and Daniel of Walker, Iowa; and three sisters: Kate of Rowley, Iowa; Anna of Hawkeye, Iowa; and Emma of Arkansas City, Kansas. Two brothers, Emmanuel and Israel, and two sisters, Mary and Sarah, preceded him in death.

There are many nieces and nephews and friends in the many states in which he has lived and worked.

The funeral services were held at the Mark Baptist Church, Saturday, February 28, at 2:30 and conducted by Rev. Luther Childs of Centerville, Iowa, who Rev. Ossman loved so well. Interment was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Bloomfield, Iowa.

The music was furnished by the men’s quartet and the women’s quartette who Rev. Ossman so faithfully trained.

The pallbearers were: Margie York, Claude Dixon, Lester Small, Elbert York, William Kline, Gladys Dabney.

Rev. Ossman will be remembered as having been a former pastor of the Macksburg and Emmanuel Baptist churches and also served the Zion Federated church near Winterset.