Charles William Powell (1921)
ALBRIGHT, JOHNSON, LOOKENBILL, LUCKENBILL, POWELL, SCOTT
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 9/30/2009 at 17:07:22
The Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, October 20, 1921
Page 1Death of Chas W. Powell
Chas. Powell, a son of Mrs. T. J. Powell of this city, died last Wednesday at St. Mary’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn. As the result of shock following an operation. Mr. Powell sustained the injury that finally caused his death while working with a bridge gang Near Bismarck, N. D. The derailment of a push car upon which he was riding threw him to the ground and fractured his leg.
The injured limb was duly set, but during the period of healing the patient contracted small pox, fell during a fainting spell, and again broke the limb. The bones refused to unite in a normal fashion after the fall, and the patient failed to such an extent that an operation seemed the only method of saving his life. He was taken to the hospital in Minneapolis, and bone taken from the healthy ankle to replace the defective osseous structure. He never rallied from the operation, and died shortly afterward.
The body was brought to Earlham for burial, and funeral services held at the Methodist Church Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Allwell. Burial was in Earlham Cemetery. Other information relating to the life of Mr. Powell is contained in the following biography read at his funeral:
It was in the uncertain glory of a spring day when nature in her varying moods of cloud and sun, was fitting the world in a new garb of blossom and green that a new life, a baby boy was ushered into the country home of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Powell of Madison County, on March 24, 1867. Charles W. Powell was the second child in the family and grew to manhood in the Fairview neighborhood, where at 18 years of age, he united with the M. E. Church where his membership still remains.
On December 6, 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Lookenbill of Guthrie Center where for 30 years they have lived. Twelve years of that time Mr. Powell was mail carrier from Guthrie Center.
To this union was born three daughters, Mrs. Albert Albright, of Bismark, N. D., Mrs. Lloyd Johnson of Guthrie Center, and Mrs. Will Scott, also of Bismark.
A year ago October 1st Mr. Powell was injured in a railroad accident which necessitated and operation which resulted in his death October 12, 1921. During a year of constant suffering in which time he had an attack of small pox, with the last two months in the hospital, his wife has been his constant companion who with her three daughters, four grandchildren, his mother, Mrs. R. B. Powell, five sisters and two brothers, with a multitude of neighbors and friends, are left to mourn the loss of a good husband, father and son and brother and an upright neighbor. To the last he evinced a cheerful, optimistic spirit, clearly demonstrating that which ever way the wind doth blow, he was resigned to have it so and that he had the faith to say:
I’ll leave it to a Higher Will
To stay or speed me trusting still
That all is well, and sure that He
Who launched my bark will sail with me
Through storm and calm and will not fail
Whatever breezes may prevail
To land me, every peril past
Within His sheltering haven at last
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