Raymond Robert Price, Sgt. (1919)

CACHIARAS, PRICE, REED, SHIFFLET

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 4/25/2008 at 10:05:19

Earlham News
Earlham, Iowa
September 1919

RAYMOND ROBERT PRICE, Sergt.

Sergt. Raymond Robert Price, son of W. J. and Nannie E. Price, was born September 30, 1886, in Penn township on his father's farm five miles southwest of Earlham. In 1894, when about eight years of age, he moved with the family to Earlham.

He was graduated from the Earlham Academy with the class of 1903. He largely worked his way through the first three years of his college course at Iowa College, in Grinell. At this time he wrote and successfully passed the Rhodes Scholarship examination. Ill health led him west, where he spent a year in lumber camps and harvest fields. Here, also, he finished some school work at Willamette University, in Portland, Oregon.

Later, in May 1911, he went south to Texas. He was called home in September to the funeral of his youngest brother. He spent one year in Wichita, Kansas, engaged in real estate. Later he purchased farms at Versailles, Missouri, and in the White River valley in Trip county, South Dakota. From here, in June 1918, when in the midst of a successful farming career, he was called into service at Camp Funston. Here he was named as one of a chosen fifty who were dispatched to Ft. Leavenworth and placed in the Signal Corps.

In September 1918, he landed in France. Here, several months later, he suffered from two severe attacks of sickness, Spanish Influenza, followed by Diptheria. These precipitated him into a complete nervous breakdown.

After the signing of the armistice, November 11, he was placed in service in bands and orchestras. During this period his mother's death occurred at home, in December 1918; but for some reason, he received few messages or letters sent from home so that he did not hear of her death until his sister personally informed him later at Indianapolis.

He returned to the United States, March 13, 1919. From a camp in Virginia, he was sent to a hospital in Indianapolis and from thence to Yankton, South Dakota.

His first evening at home was one of much happiness to him; and now in a new heavenly home, a sweet reveille, far sweeter than those his lips could give from his bugle calls him; and he views the real Holy City, even more grand than the one pictured in the song he used to play so softly and so beautifully on his trombone.

He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since he was about fourteen years of age. Remarkably true to his religious convictions, he walked through life and the purity of his life shone in his face.

Those bereft of one so cherished, so tender, so loving, and sympathetic for all, are the father, W. J. Price and the sisters and brothers, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cachiaras, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Shifflet, Mr. and Mrs W. F. Price, with Esther and Walter.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, Sunday, September 21, 1919, at 3:30 p.m., conducted by Rev. Howard and interment made in Earlham Cemetery. Boys of the American Legion assisted throughout the service.

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