Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — SAD HEARTS WEEP AT BIER [ARTICLE]

SAD HEARTS WEEP AT BIER

MANY PAY LIVING TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED MOTHER. The funeral of Mrs. W. H. Beam, who died at the hospital in this city Monday morning at 6:45 o’clock following an operation for an obstructed intestine, was held at the late home on Elm street Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock. Short services were conducted by (the Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor of the Trinity M. E. church of this city. There was a large attendance, testifying to the love and esteem in which this mother was held by the people of the community. The pall-bearers were W. C. Babcock, J. N. Leatherman, Able Grant, C. A. Ross, Frank King and Samuel Roth. The floral offerings were very profuse and most (beautiful. One of the most beautiful wreaths was presented by the felllbw railroad employes of Mr. Beam’s son-in-law, Frank Busha, of Lafayette. The funeral was indeed a sad one, nlot only flor the bereaved husband, children, sister and other relatives, but for the many friends of the departed. The following obituary was read by Dr. Strecker: Catharine May Wright, born in Charlestown, 111., September 1, 1865, (died Aug. 4, 1919._ She was united in marriage to W. ’H. Beam October 7, 1882. To this union six children survive: Mrs. Merle Wilcox, Springfield, O.; Mrs. Madge Busha, Lafayette; Hurley W. Beam, Chicago; Don Beam, M onion; Mrs. Gladys Merica, Chicago, and Paul Beam, of this city. Mrs. Beam’s parents moved to Caro, Midh., when she was quite young, she living there until her marriage to Mr. Beam, thirty-six year ago. She was a loving mother, a good and faithful 'helpmate, whose greatest object in life was the rearing of her family and keeping the home fires burning at all times for the husband and the little flock, one of the noblest traits of a wife and mother and one which her family certainly appreciated to the utmost and one which renders her loss the harder to bear.