Weeks, William Chamberlain – 1846-1907

LANE, SCHROYER, SCOTT, WEEKS

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Date: 3/26/2015 at 21:16:37

Died, at St. Thomas hospital, Marshalltown, Iowa, on the 23rd day of June 1907, W. C. Weeks, of cancer of the bowels.
William Chamberlain Weeks was born in Piermont, New Hampshire, on the 12th day of March, 1846, and dying June 23, 1907, he was aged 61 years, 3 months, 11 days.
May 28, 1874, he was married to Anna Ruth Scott at Rhodes, Iowa. His wife and five children survive him. The two daughters are Mrs. George Lane, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. Frank Schroyer, of Wray, Colorado; two sons are, Edward and Cecil Weeks, of Baxter, Iowa, and Benton Weeks, of Marshalltown, Iowa. All these were present at the funeral with the exception of Mrs. Schroyer who was unable to attend, and Mrs. Weeks, wife of decedent, who is now, and was then, lying at the home of W. M. Grant, with what is thought to be an incurable disease.
Monday, the 24th inst., the remains were brought to Baxter and escorted to the home of Mr. J. S. Booth by a committee of Knights Pythias and Odd Fellows, of which orders he had long been a member.
The funeral was under auspices of the two fraternal order to which he belonged. A service was held at the Congregational church at 2:30 p.m., the Rev. Blandford preaching an eloquent discourse. The casket was smothered with flowers. There was a beautiful Odd Fellow floral design, the kindly work of Mrs. Chas. Dodge. The Knights also had an elegant floral piece, emblematical of their order. The selections rendered by the choir were excellent. After the divine services the brothers and friends took carriages for Independence cemetery. Slowly, the funeral cartage wound its way to the silent city, and upon its arrival there the remains of the departed husband, father and brother were consigned to their last resting place with a joint ritualistic service by the orders of which he had been a faithful and loving member.
Will Weeks had lived in this community over twenty years. At the time of his death he was serving as township clerk and permanent secretary of Active Lodge, No. 516, I.O.O.F., and had filled these places in an intelligent, careful and prudent manner. He probably was the best known man in the township. His occupation was a humble one, that of digging wells and tiling, nevertheless the work was honorable and needful, and our farmer friends and others will greatly miss his services. All his life he had been a hardworking man, but with all that his world’s goods were few, but he has left a legacy far richer than that of gold – a legacy of an upright, honorable, clean life – an example, it would do us all well to emulate. The writer of this will greatly miss the dead brother. His ways were always kindly and considerate, and with his last resting place may Nature’s elements deal kindly.
Source: Baxter New Era; July 4, 1907, page 4, col. 2