Phillip Peter Schlarb (1922)

EPPARD, FRITZ, HENRY, RAUSENBERGER, SCHLARB

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/19/2010 at 16:06:39

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, February 9, 1922

Death Claims P. P. Schlarb

Succumbs to Attack of Heart Failure While Walking to Garage Monday Afternoon. Was a Half Century Long Resident of the Vicinity.

P. P. Schlarb, a resident of the community and Madison county since his early childhood, with the exception of recent years spent at Minneapolis, died suddenly of heart failure or apoplexy near his garage in the rear of the Emmeline Stribling home Monday afternoon. The body was discovered by two school girls rooming at Mrs. Stribling’s home as they came home after school. Life had probably been extinct well over an hour, as Mr. Schlarb left the home of his sister, Mrs. Chas. Henry at about 2:30 p.m. with avowed intention of draining the water from his car, and must have died a few minutes later without reaching his destination.

Mrs. Stribling observed the prone form of Mr. Schlarb and then telephoned Dr. Day. After being examined by Justice Beals, acting coroner, the body was removed to the Chas. Henry home. The sudden death of her brother came as a special shock to the sister Mrs. Henry, and she was nearly prostrated. Mr. Schlarb ran to the scene of the Henry Tough fire in the morning and doubtless overtaxed his heart, as he complained of severe pain in his breast upon his return, and again before and after dinner. He has been aware of an apparent form of heart weakness for some time.

The sons Phillip, residing with his mother at Joplin, Mo. And Franklin who is attending an automobile school at Watertown, Mass., were quickly notified and arrived respectively on Tuesday and Wednesday after a hurried trip. Miss Fern Henry, who is employed at Collins, Iowa, reached home Monday evening, and the two sisters, Mrs. Harry Rausenberger, of Columbus City and Mrs. Frank Fritz, who has been caring for Mrs. Edith Wetrich at Collins the past three weeks, came Tuesday.

Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian Church at eleven o’clock Friday, and interment will be in the cemetery at Penn Center. The following is the life history of P. P. Schlarb as his lifelong friends in this vicinity knew him:

Philip Peter Schlarb, son of Nicholas and Eliza Schlarb, was born November 7th, 1864, in Holmes County, Ohio, and died in Earlham on February 6th, 1922.

When he was three years old his parents moved from Ohio to Madison county, Iowa, to the Schlarb homestead, which was later in the Penn neighborhood. This place is still known by the pioneers as the old Schlarb farm.

“Pete” as he was familiarly known by all, spent his childhood and young manhood on this farm. On January 1st, 1900, he was married to Viola Eppard. To this union was born two sons, Franklin, the oldest is attending college in Boston, Mass., and Philip is in high school in Joplin, Missouri, both being present today.

In 1903, Mr. Schlarb with his family moved to Earlham where he lived for several years. An although he has been in business in Omaha and Minneapolis for the past few years, it seems very fitting indeed, as well as providential that when the sudden death summons came, it should be in the town most beloved by him and on whose streets he with his cheery words of greeting, was a familiar figure. And because of the years spent with its people, no doubt his pleasant associations of days long past and gone.

Mr. Schlarb’s church preference was the Presbyterian, which he attended on last Sunday morning, but in the evening, less than twenty hours before his soul returned to God, who gave it, he listened attentatively to the sermon by Rev. Lescault, pastor of the Friends church.

Mr. Schlarb was one of six children. One daughter died in infancy and his brother Henry, who was also well known at Earlham, preceeded him to the Great Beyond, less than three months ago. He leaves three sisters, Mrs. Frank Fritz, of Penn Center, south of Earlham, Mrs. H. M. Rausenberger, of Columbus City, Iowa, and Mrs. C. W. Henry, of Earlham, who all mourn the loss of one of the kindest of brothers. He also leaves the two sons to whom he has been a devoted and loving father.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 15, 1922
Page 7

Earlham

Earlham people were shocked Monday afternoon, when it was reported at Peter Schlarb had been found dead in the alley near the Stribling barn, where he kept his car. As the weather turned cooler, he had decided to drain out the water. Some little time after, two school girls found his lifeless body where he had fallen from what the doctors later pronounced apoplexy. He was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Chas. Henry.

The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church on Friday morning, Rev. Howard preaching the sermon. Interment was made at the Penn Center cemetery. The sisters and sons of the departed have the sympathy of the community in their loss of a brother and father.

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