Fred P. Latson (1938)

LATSON, ELLIS, REECE, BRAILLIER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 5/27/2015 at 09:10:15

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, March 31, 1938

Services for Fred P. Latson were held at the Welch Funeral Home Tuesday morning with Rev. Benjamin Harris of the Bear Creek church officiating. Rev. Harris was assisted by Rev. Chas. Burnette, pastor of the local M. E. Church.

Mr. Latson was the father of Mrs. Waldo Reece of Earlham and had lived at her home until his last illness when he was taken to a hospital at Clarinda where his death occurred last Saturday.

Interment was made at New Providence, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon. Relatives from a distance attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Merle Braillier and daughter of Terrill, Mildred Reece of Webb, and Vernon Reece of Messina.

Fred P. Latson was born to Robert Pierce and Julia Ann Latson at Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 18, 1861.

Most of his life was spent in the northern woods. They were his playground as a boy and his means of living as a man. He hauled great sledges of logs over skidways to the rivers in winter and rode those same logs down treacherous streams in the spring time.

On his twenty-first birthday he was married to Atta M. Ellis at Clam Falls. For years they made their home in a little cabin in a clearing of that forest battling deep snows of winter and forest fires of summer.

In 1902 they moved to Iowa where they farmed for several years and then went into a hardware store at New Providence.

He went to meet his Savior from the hospital at Clarinda March 26, 1938, aged 76 years, five months and eight days. He leaves to mourn his passing, two daughters, Inez V. Reece of Earlham, Ilo L. Braillier of Terrill, nine grandchildren, two sisters and a brother. His wife preceded him February 14, 1914.

He was a member of the M. E. church and for many years was an active worker in it. Since retiring from business he has attended the Friends church, and gave clear testimony that he was ready and anxious to go to meet those he loved in the yesterdays and still missed so keenly. He longed to be with his Savior who sustained him through the years of his loneliness.

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