Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-13
OBITUARY,

he passed away at the age OF oz Year,,
lacking four days. The immediate cause
Of his sudden demise was heart failure.
His body was brought to Custer on the
4th of March, that his remains might be
inferred in the burial lot where 30 many
of the family lie sleeping. The funeral
services were held 10 the Congregational
church, with Rey. Katherine Powell,
officiating.
He was buried under the auspices of
the Modern Woodmen OF America, to
which order he belonged. being char
ter member of the Methodist and Con-
gregational churches. in Custer, and like
wise of the knights of Pythias and
Royal neighbors. These, together with
the large circle of mourning friends,
made a long procession who followed his
remains to their last resting place in the
Custer cemetery.
The beautiful and touching ritual of
the Woodmen formed fitting farewell
to all that was mortal of him who had
stood 30 high in their ranks. 1t is ap-
propriate that the life and death OF 80
good man should be commemorated,
but as he was an old-time friend Of the
writer, that duty is sad one.
The subject of this sketch was born
in Carbondale, Pa, March 2, lS47, and
came to Iowa in 1866, where he was
married to Miss Arabella Thompson,
July 8, 1870, and came with his family
to the Black Hills in 1877. His first
wife died in Custer, in 1881. In 1882 he
was married to Miss Amanda j. Peltz,in
Rapid City, who survives him.
With the exception of few years
spent on his ranch near Hill City, Mr..
Reder was resident of Custer from
1879 to l899-or for the space OF ~
years. In all these years he was en-
gagged in the lumber business and the
conducting of sawmills. In 1903 he
moved to Spearfish, in Lawrence county,
and a short time afterward moyed to
ranch he had acquired near the town OF
Donald, in Wyoming, where he was en-
gagged in farming and the raising OF
stock up to the time of bis death.
He leaves behind him to mourn his
loss a wife, three sons, two daughters
and five grandchildren, with large
number of nephews and neices, and one
brother, Peter Reder, who lives in ST.
Paul, Mimi, and who is the last surviv-
ing member of the family.
Odo Reder was a good and kindly
man, and was always ready to do good
turn for neighbor or friend. AS an
illustration of this, will relate an in
Cident. 1t was, l think, in the year
1885, when l was going to Rapid City
on business and had proceeded as far as
Hill City, when my horse took sick and
was obliged to stop. l called on Mr..
Reder and asked him to hire to me
saddle-horse, so that could proceed on
my journey. "No," he said; Il can't
do that, for have none handy, but
have a team in the barn. will hitch
I'D and take you to Rapid, myself" l
said that was too much trouble. He In
sisted, saying: 81 want to have good
talk with you anyhow, and we can con-
verse as we ride" AS we drove We
talked of many things, all the way to
Rapid City, where We stayed over night.
He allowed me to pay the hotel bill, but
would take nothing for himself or team.
A man whose heart is in the right place
can never forget favor like that. 1t is
little things like these that make man
loved while he lives and his memory
revered when he is dead. Dead did
say. That was mistake; for according
to the light which have received, no
man ever dies.
What is the resurrection?
Why, simply the rising of the spirit
ual body from the feshly body--for Odo
still has body, more refined and OF
such sublimated material that the fieshly
eye (made up of clay and water) cannot
discern it. The resurrection of man is
celebrated on the other side of the river
Styx ESQ to speak,, and great was the
rejoicing OF his friends who stood ready
to receive him, and great was the re-
union of the Reder family when Odo
reached the other shore.
And what became of Odo, after that
Again, 1 answer. BY the teaching
which in 40 years of investigation have
proved true and reliable. They en-
braced him, and then with one on either
side they bore him to their home and
his future home, where they laid him
on couch to rest and sleep for awhile.
When he awoke his ears we're greeted
with music, sweeter than the music OF
earth, for all things in spirit life in the
higher spheres. are more intense, and
more harmonious than on the earth.
The senses are quickened and the facul-
ties of the mind are heightened, and
act more vivid and intense. And what
IL should say that the procession that
followed Odo Reder up through the
spheres to his home, was ten fold greater
than that which followed his body to its
home upon the hill. I have no author
ity to specify numbers, but from what 1
am informed of what usually takes place
when good man goes to his reward, l
would be justified in saying there were
an hundred fold more to bid him well
come, than there were of US to say
good.by.
And what will odo do to occupy has
time and exercise his accustomed en-
ergyP
First of all, he will construct home
where he can dwell, and where he can