Nash, Milmer J 1894-1935

NASH, STRADER

Posted By: Bruce Atkinson (email)
Date: 10/28/2007 at 17:19:03

DEATH CLAIMS WAR VETERAN
Hinton Man Expires
Following Sickness of 4 Months
Milmer Nash, 40 years old, of Hinton, a veteran of the world war, died Monday in a Sioux City hospital following a sickness of four months.
Mr. Nash enlisted in the United States army on April 13, 1917, soon after the entry of the United states into the world war and was a member of the famous Rainbow division. He was corporal in Company L of the division.
Born near Hinton May 11, 1894,he resided in and near Hinton all of his file. On August 7, 1919, Mr. Nash and Miss Agnes Strader were married at Pender.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Agnes Nash, of Hinton; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Nash and a brother, V. E. Nash of Sioux City.
The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon in the Third Presbyterian church. Rev. A. J. Kamman will officiate and burial will be in Graceland Park cemetery under the direction of Christy’s funeral home. Members of Casper post, American Legion of Hinton will conduct military rites at the graveside.
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Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa) of 03/??/1935.

Milmer Nash
Born in Lincoln Township, Plymouth County Iowa on May eleven 1894 Milmer Nash reached the age of fourty years and ten months when death over took him at the Lutheran Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa. He had been in poor health for several months due to his experiences in the late war.
Mr. Nash enlisted on April 13, 1917 and became a member of the famous Rainbow division, attaining the rank of corporal in Company L of that division. It was said of him that he spent eighteen months in active service over seas but if, as the poet has said “we live in deeds not in years” he lived many years over seas. In some of the experiences through which he went men live an age in an hour.
He was married on August 7, 1919 to Miss Agnes Strader who survives. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Luther Nash and a brother V. E. Nash all of Sioux City also survive. Funeral services were held from the Third Presbyterian church in Sioux City in charge of the pastor, Rev. A. J. Kamman on Wednesday afternoon. Burial was made in Graceland Park. Members of Casper post, American Legion of Hinton acted as pallbearers and special guard of honor. At the cemetery the firing squad gave the customary three salutes and two bugles, one close by and another remote, sounded taps. Thus another brave man came to the end of the way.
As we sat there in the church, which was packed with friends, we could not help thinking that every man and woman of us owed Milmer Nash a debt, a debt we can no longer pay, save as we pay it to his sorrowing wife and parents. He gave up at least thirty five of fourty years of his life in what he believed was a war to end wars; a war the purpose of which was to make the world safer for Democracy. The pathetic part of it is that he knew long before taps sounded for him that he had given up years of his life that the financial investments of certain wealthy Americans might not be jeopardized in Europe. He saw the promises we made the soldier boys disregarded. He saw the ideals for which he all but perished in battle flung to the winds. He saw that millions were made by some of this stay-at-home countrymen while he and his buddies were over there. But, be it said to his everlasting credit, no body ever heard him complain either about his sacrifice or about his long continued ill health. There was much of the hero in Milmer Nash, yet there never was a more unassuming gentle man and gentleman than he. For the most of us the war ended in 1918; for him it ended March eleven, 1935. Peace be to his ashes and the comfort of God’s grace be the sweet experience of his loving wife, his aged parents, his brother and his buddies.
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Plymouth Chimes (Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa) of 03/??/1935.
~a publication of the Frist Plymouth Presbyterian Church