Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — LAID TO REST TUESDAY EVE [ARTICLE]

LAID TO REST TUESDAY EVE

The funeral of Mrs. W. H. Beam, which was held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the late home on Elm street, was largely attended, short service being conducted by Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church. The pall-bearers were W. C. Babcock, James N. Leatherman, J. A. Grant, W. C. Ross, F. «H. King and Sam Roth. The floral offerings were profuse and very beautiful. Burial was made in Weston cemetery, where the sorrowing relatives and friends witnessed the laying away of their loved one. The following obituary was read at the fuperal: Catharine May Wright, horn in Charlestown, 111., September 1, 1865, died August 4, 1919. She was united in marriage to W. H. Beam October 7, 1882. From this union six children survive: Mrs. Merle Wilcox, Springfield, O.; Mrs. Madge Busha, Lafayette; Hurley W. Beam, Chicago; Don Beam, Monon; Mrs. Gladys Merlca, Chicago, and Paul Beam of this city. Mrs. Beam’s parents moved to Caro, Mich., when she was quite young, she living there until her marriage to Mr. Beam, 36 years 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.

All the children were present at the funeral and among others from out of town were: Mrs. Hattie White of Caro, Mich., and F. B. Ham and family of Lafayette. The sympathy of the community is extended the bereaved husband and children in their hour of sorrow. -