Coleman, Willard F. Dr. 1868 - 1900

COLEMAN, LANDERS, BARRY, LOTT, MACKERROW

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:44

Source: Decorah Republican Dec. 13, 1900 P 6 C 4

THE SILENT REAPER.
DR. WILLARD F. COLEMAN.
It is not ever a pleasant thing to the editor to have this column of his paper well filled. Much less is it so when he is called upon to record the departure to his long home of one who has been in youth and manhood his playmate, dear friend and business associate. In the death of Dr. Willard F, Coleman in Chicago last Saturday this writer feels that he has lost a friend who was a friend indeed. Many knew him, intimately they may think, but only one who has come so close that only the ties of kinship can be closer, can know how true a heart and how faithful and noble a nature was contained under what at times might have seemed a brusque demeanor.
Early in life Dr. Coleman learned how to take hard knocks from the world and face them resolutely and manfully. As a lad he had tasks set him which he saw in later years were meant for his benefit, and he profited by them. Thrown upon his own resources at an age when most boys have scarcely begun to think of the realities of life, he went to work to make a place for himself in the world with that self- reliance which characterized his every action. As a mere lad he prized his honor above all things and as he developed into manhood it was a source of pride that among men his word was accepted as readily as his bond. He had scarcely attained his majority when he was graduated as a dentist and began the practice of his profession. His youth for a time stood in the way of the acquirement of a large practice, but it soon became evident that he was a thorough master of his chosen life work in all its branches, business came to him rapidly and he was prospered as few are, just starting in life.
Dr. Coleman was born in Decorah and was in his thirty-third year at the time of his death. He was the fourth son of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Coleman. They with two brothers and one sister have preceded him in death. On Aug. 28, 1895, he was married to Miss Winnie Landers, who, with two sisters and three brothers, survive him. In July last the deceased became ill from an affliction which had troubled him at times for several years. He had been assured when he suffered former attacks that it was not of a dangerous nature, but this time it assumed an alarming condition. As soon as he was able to travel he went to Chicago to consult specialists, who assured him that he could be cured and, as stated last week, he put himself in their charge. After his discharge from the hospital he seemed to improve for a time, but later the disease asserted itself in a form which attendants feared and he gradually sank until the end came on Saturday last at two o’clock in the afternoon.
In all the relations of life—as son, husband, brother and friend—Dr. Coleman was thoughtful, kind, loving and true. We who are left to keep green his memory hope that the future may reveal to us why one who was so well beloved and whose presence among the living was as much desired and needed, should be thus early removed from among us.
The remains were brought from Chicago, Monday, and were accompanied by Mrs. Coleman, and her sisters, Mrs. Barry, and Mrs. Lott, and Mrs. MacKerrow, and H. H. Coleman, of Minneapolis. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Landers home on Broadway, at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. M. Willett officiating, and the remains were interred in the Phelps cemetery. A profusion of beautiful flowers attested the love and reverence and sympathy that is felt on every hand for the deceased and the mourning ones.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born in 1868.

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