Williams news., 1908-09-12
FUNERAL OF F. R. NELLlS

from Des Mnin+s, Iowa, accom- panied by Mrs. Nellis, Wm. Nellis, brother of the dead man. John Nellis and Mrs. James Bradsha W. (John Nellis and Mrs. Bradshaw having met the train at Flagstaff ) Many friends of the family aid brother Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias met the train and -s- eorted the remains to the Button undertaking esta blishment. Sun day morning the remains were re- moved to the Nellis home.
 At 3 o'clock p m Sunday funeral services were conducted at the l O. O. F. hall, under the auspices of the local lodge of Independent Or der of Odd Fellows. assisted by the Knights of Pythias and Rebekah lodges Rev David Roberts of the NJ. E. church delivered a beautiful sermon, in which he paid eloquent and fitting tributes to the late MT. Nellis.
 Mesdames Robinson and Poison, | Misses Lynch and Peet, and Messrs. Robinson and Marshal had charge of the singing and rendered num- Der of very beautiful and appro-. priate hymn
 1 After the services at the hall a procession several hundred yards in length formed and followed the remains to the cemetery. At the head of the procession eighty-four Odd Fellows and Knights of Pyth- ias marched in double file.
 P. M Shafer, Chas. Johnson and H. A. Hicks, from the Odd Fellows, and William Souder, Amos Adams and R. s. Teeple, from the Pyth- ians, acted az pail bearers. At the cemetery Rev. Roberts delivered a fina discourse and read some appropriate selections from the Scriptures. after which the reg ular ritual of the Odd Fellows was followed. and the remains laid to rest beside those of the two chil- dren who preceded their father to the grave.
 The funeral is said to have been the most largely attended one that ever occurred in the city. Quite a number of people from neighbor- ing communities were present and paid respect to the dead man, whom they knew and honorsd dur ing his life because of his many ad- mirable qualities.
 The floral tributes were very beautiful. especially those sent by the local Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Many other beautiful pieces were sent hv sorrowing friends to show their regard and respect.
 In the cemetery there is a newly made grave, and the flowers which were placed thereon by loving hands last Sunday have already wilted. Ere long those who placed them there, with few exceptions. will be too busy struggling with life's problems to give much com monplace thought to the memory of Ferd Nellis, that was. But it will be many years before a Il mem- ory of the man will have flown from the people who make Will jams and Northern Arizona their home Long after the community has ceased to mourn his loss the legion of good and kind deeds he did during his life. the many things he accomplished that have done and are doing SO much toward con- vsrting our part of Arizona from wilderness into an Eden-those things will many years hence re- fresh the memory of those who might otherwise forget that he ever existed on this earth.'
 Ferd Nellis has passed away, but his many kind deeds will dwell in : the memory of people who knew him until they, too, solve the great t , mystery of life. death and the grave. School begins hext Monday. This