Frank Marion WHITTIER

WHITTIER, WILLIAMSON, LORIMER, CONLON, THEBIAY, PEASLEY, MILLER, EDWARDS, ROSIN

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Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:56

Frank Marion Whittier
23 April 1859 --- 25 November 1926

F. M. Whittier died at his home in this city Thanksgiving evening about 8 o'clock. He had been in poor health about a month. He was up and around the house Thursday and it was thought he was getting a little better. He had been down town frequently during the past month, and served on the board on election day as had been his custom for several years. Last summer he suffered some from what was almost a sunstroke. He thought he would give up hard work, but frequently he would disregard his intentions in this direction and his friends would see him working with the same vigor and enthusiasm of a man years his junior.

Funeral Sunday Afternoon

There was a large outpouring of Mr. Whittler's friends and neighbors at the funeral services Sunday afternoon which were held in the Methodist church. Rev. Anderson preached the sermon and was assisted in the service by Rev. Muhleman. The Masonic funeral service was also given at the request of the deceased.

Mr. Whittier was a man of the highest integrity. His word was as good as the moral law and he took pride in dealing fairly and squarely with everybody. He was a man of strong convictions and always faithful to them. The genuine sympathy of the entire community is extended the surviving relatives. The following obituary was read at the service by Rev. E. A. Anderson:

Obituary

Frances Marion Whittier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus French Whittier and third cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier was born near Madison, Wisconsin, April 23, 1859. He passed to his eternal reward November 25, 1926 at the age of 67 years, 7 months and 2 days.

At 7 years of age he moved to Green county, Wisconsin, where he lived until he was united in marriage September 5, 1881 with Agnes Williamson Lorimer of Chicago, Ill. They moved from there to Wausau, Wis., where they lived for one and one-half years. They moved from there to Springview, Neb. and lived there for three and one-half years, moving to Chicago, where they lived for twenty years, where he was in charge of Grant Park for ten and one-half years. From Chicago they moved to a farm at Forest City, Iowa, living there eight and one-half years, when they retired from the farm and came to Eagle Grove, where they have lived since 1917.

To this union were born eight children, two sons having preceded him in death, John in infancy and Frank when he was 24 years of age. Mr. Whittier was a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. He was a respected citizen, firm in his beliefs in American principles and his honesty was beyond question.

He was a loving husband and father and sacrificed anything for the good of his family and friends. About one year ago in revival meetings he confessed his need of the Saviour and accepted him for his salvation. He was baptized and united with the Baptist church and all the days since he loved to meditate on the scripture and was happy in his new found belief.

He leaves to mourn his loss his wife; four daughters, Mrs. R. E. Conlon and family, Fargo, N. D., Mrs. E. M. Thebiay and family of Eagle Grove, Mrs. P. H. Peasley and family, Arnolds Park, Mrs. B. W. Miller, Bixby, Okla.; two sons, Albion Harley, of Edgewood, Md., and Marion Lorimer, Eagle Grove; one sister, Mrs. Dora Edwards, Mountain Grove, Missouri; one niece, Mrs. Earnest Rosin, Mountain Grove, Mo., and a host of friends.

The passing of Mr. Whittier marks the going of one of the old time woodsmen. He was one of those real experts with the axe whose equal is hard to find in this section of the country. The Boy Scouts learned many tricks from him and they will miss this scientific instruction. When chopping in the Wisconsin woods he was challenged to a match with Canada, but before the match came off a Canadian representative witnessed while he and his partner felled a tree leaving the stump so smooth that he sat down and wrote a letter on it and then vanished and the match was never called.

O' the gladness of the going,
When the faithful travel home,
O! the rapture of the welcome,
Where their feet no more shall roam;
O! the beauty of the mansion,
Which for them is all prepared.
And the bliss their souls inherit,
Who in Jesus' love have shared.
O! the joy 'neath heaven's home.
When the faithful travel home!
Through the tempest and the sunshine
They have crossed life's vales and hills;
'Neath a changeful sky, their pathway
Led them oft through many ills;
Now, before them lieth nothing
Save the cloudless perfect day;
Shining o'er immortal beauty
In an everlasting ray.
O! the Joy 'neath heaven's home,
When the faithful travel home!
Unto this they've looked with longing,
As their various pathes they trod;
All have come through one dark valley
As they've, traveled home to God,
Some through years of long endurance.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE -- Eagle Grove,Iowa
December 2, 1926

source -- Paul Wilde