TANDY, Henry T.

TANDY, BASTON, BOSTON, OSWANDEL, HAMILTON, BUTLER, REMINGTON, MCWILLIAMS, DILLON

Posted By: Judy Dankert Parsons (email)
Date: 2/24/2005 at 15:31:23

Oskaloosa Herald, Oskaloosa, IA, July 1928.
Henry Tandy was born in Missouri, March 5, 1848, in Missouri. His parents moved to Iowa while he was yet a small child, and they settled on a farm in Mahaska County, where Mr Tandy grew to manhood. He was one of a family of 12 children.

On September 7, 1867, he was united in marriage with Martha Boston. To them four children were born, three daughters and one son. The son, John, preceded his father in death, having died at the age of 28 years. The three daughters are as follows: Mrs. Joseph Butler, Mrs. F.A. Oswandel, both of Oskaloosa, and Mrs. Pearl Hamilton, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Besides his wife and three daughters, he is survived by two brothers, Spencer Tandy and Ambrose Tandy, Oskaloosa; four sisters, Mrs. Jane Remington, Salem, Oregon; Mrs. Frances McWilliams, Oskaloosa; Mrs. Elmira Remington, Nebraska, and Mrs. Anna Dillon, Nebraska, and also five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Mr. Tandy spent all his active life in farming near Oskaloosa, and about twenty years ago he moved into Oskaloosa, where he has resided ever since.

Mr. Tandy was converted in boyhood and joined the Methodist Church and later he united with the Reformed church, of which he remained a member until he moved to Oskaloosa, when he joined Central M.E. Church, in which relation he remained faithful until death. He was for many years a valuable member of the Official Board of Central Church and gave of his time and means to further the interests of the church. Mr. Tandy was possessed by a stalwart piety and had a deep reverence for the things sacred and holy. He loved his Lord with all his heart. The house of worship had always a great attraction for him, and he found his greatest delight in the fellowship of Christian people. He was most at home in the house of prayer and with the people who prayed. The solid virtues of honesty and integrity were deeply fixed in the fibers of his character. His word was as valid as his bond. His whole life was a beautiful commentary of what the grace of God could do for a human soul. He was steadfast in his devotion and dependable in all his relationships. He was uncompromising in his advocacy of the right and in his rejection of that which was wrong. He was wholeheartedly given to the cause of righteousness. No one ever needed to guess as to his stand on the rule of righteousness. Out of the abundance of his heart he spoke freely and frequently concerning the matters of spiritual values, the conscious reality of the presence of the Lord with him, his readiness for the departure of this life, and of his firm hope of entering the haven of eternal rest. Mr. Tandy was a good man, in the genuine sense of that term. He lived nobly and died triumphant in faith.

After a lingering illness lasting for several years, during which he suffered much discomfort, he was set free from the afflictions of the body, on July 4th, 1928, at 8 o'clock in the morning, and his redeemed soul went to dwell with his Lord in eternal bliss.

Funeral services were held, Saturday, July 7, at 2:30 o'clock from Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. S.H. Turbeville, Pastor of Central Church officiating. Music was furnished by Mrs. Evalyn McFadden and Clair D. Gordon, with Miss Price at the pipe organ. Interment was made in the family lot in Olivet Cemetery.