LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
April 2, 1918

GRAVE IS IN FRANCE
First LeMars Young Man to Die in France Given Suitable Resting Place

Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Wasmer, of this city, received a letter from Austin A.
Parker, adjutant general at Washington, D.C., yesterday. The letter
informed them that their son John Wasmer, who died while on service in
France on January 20, has been buried at Chaumont, France, in the American
cemetery at that place and the grave carefully marked. The letter also
stated that the funeral was conducted with military honors and appropriate
religious services.

CALLED FOR SERVICE.
Merrill Physician Ordered to Report at Fort Riley.

Dr. A. Naffziger, of Merrill, who volunteered for service in the medical
officer’s service last fall and was commissioned a lieutenant, received
orders last Friday night for duty at Fort Riley, Kansas, this week. Lieut.
Naffziger has been located at Merrill for three years and has built up a
good practice, which he gives up to enter the army.

The Akron Register-Tribune
April 18, 1918

Obituary.
A gloom was cast over the community Wednesday evening when it was learned that Mrs. J. S. Hughes had passed away at the Samaritan hospital in Sioux City, where on Tuesday morning she had submitted to an operation for tumor.

Mrs. J. S. Hughes was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 14, 1879, being 38 years, 10 months and 28 days of age at the time of her death.  She came to Westfield when but six weeks old, and has lived here all her life excepting three years spent in Nebraska.

She was married in 1899 to J. S. Hughes, who, with one daughter, Mrs. Geo. Mills, survive her.  Besides her husband and daughter, she leaves to mourn her loss a step-mother, Mrs. Emma Martin, three brothers and one sister, viz.; W. A. Martin, of Crawford, Nebr.; Walter Martin, of Aberdeen, S.D.; Frank Martin, of Sioux City, and Mrs. H. E. Robinson, of Dawson, N.D.  One half-brother and two half-sisters—Dwight Martin, Auril Martin and Mrs. Walter Dean, all of Westfield—also survive her. 

Mrs. Hughes was a kind and loving wife and a devoted mother, and her loss will be felt most keenly.  By her sweet disposition and kindly nature she endeared herself to all who knew her.  In her death the community has lost a valuable friend.  To Mr. J. S. Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. George Mills we extend our deepest sympathy.

Funeral services were held at the Congregational church in Westfield on Monday morning, Rev. W. W. Tyrrell, of the Akron M. E. church, conducting the same.  Interment was made in Riverside Cemetery at Akron. The pallbearers were Grove Rollins, Albert Harrington, A. D. Lilly, O. B. Lilly, S. P. Lilly and Wm. Reed.  The floral offerings were many and beautiful.

Mrs. Mill’s husband, Private Geo. S. Mills, stationed at Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Texas, arrived Sunday night for the funeral and will have, at least, a fifteen-day furlough.
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CARD of THANKS.
To the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted and offered their sympathy during the illness and after the death of our beloved wife and mother, Mrs. S. Hughes, and also for the beautiful floral offerings, we desire to return our heartfelt thanks and appreciation. –The Family.