Stutzman, William H. 1876-1915

STUTZMAN, LEWIS

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:33

Source: Boyden Reporter (2-4-1915)

Born: July 11, 1876
Died: January 28, 1915

PASSES TO GREAT BEYOND--FORMER RESIDENT OF BOYDEN PASSED GENTLY AWAY--ATTENDED SCHOOL HERE

Died at the home of his brother, in our city, Thursday, January 28, aged 39 years, 7 months, and 4 days, William Henry Stutzman. The funeral services were held at the J.A. Stutzman home at 1:30 and at the United Presbyterian Church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon Reverend D.W. Witham officiating and paying a beautiful tribute to the memory of the deceased. The casket was covered with the most beautiful floral designs loving fingers ever wrought, all of which spoke of peace, purity and immorality. The music rendered was such as to soften all hearts and moisten all eyes.

He was a devoted husband and a kind and loving father, to his sisters and brothers, a tender brother, and to his friends the soul of fellowship. But the greatest of all--he was a man. And as a man it is that those who knew him best must love to contemplate him. He believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. He believed that the man who scattered flowers in the pathway of his fellow men, who lets into the dark places of life the sunshine of human happiness, is following the foot steps of his master.

At the close of the services, a procession followed the funeral car to our Silent City of the Dead. At the open grave we say “farewell,” May God’s purest angels guard his slumbers.

William Henry Stutzman was born in Fort Co, Illinois, in 1876 came to Iowa when he was an infant. During his early life, he attended the Boyden Public School, making his home with his brother J.A. Stutzman. In the year 1899 he was married to Miss Josie Lewis to this union was born one child, Marvin. Mr. Stutzman has made his home at Carter S. D, for the last five years, where he sustained injuries from a fall, from which he never recovered. The end came at the home of his brother J.A. Stutzman in Boyden, Iowa on the 28th of January.

Besides a host of friends, the deceased leaves to mourn his departure a wife and a son Marvin, four sisters and three brothers. The Sisters are Mrs. Douglas of Boonsville, Iowa, Mrs. J. Young, Chattanooga, Oklahoma, Mrs. Arnold, Vernon, Illinois and Mrs. John Jones of Vernon, Illinois. The Brothers are: Fred, of Charter, South Dakota, Lewis of Britton, South Dakota and J.A. Stutzman of Boyden, Iowa.