Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-14
Death SUMMONS
MRS. WEBER
YOUNGEST CHILD AND ONLY
DAUGHTER OF Mr.. AND MRS.
M. A. ROBERTS DIES.
j. 6. MAST is CALLED
Old Pioneer Passes Away Resided
Here Since 1865 - Funeral of
Late DR.. n. c. Head Held
This Morning.

/ After an illness extending over -four
weeks, Mrs Emma Lou Roberts Web
Der, wife of Clarence A. Weber of
| Minneapolis and the only daughter
and youngest child of Judge and Mrs.
NJ. a. Roberts of this city, passed to
rest at a few minutes before l o'clock
this morning. aged twenty-four years.
She is survived by her husband par
ents and two brothers, Newton and
! Franklin T. Roberts. The funeral serv-
ices will be held Friday from the resi-
dence, 325 West Fifth street. Rev. T,
| w. jeffrey. pastor of the First Metho-
ldist Episcopal church, assisted by
Rev. w G. Wilson of Hedrick, will
| conduct the services Interment will
be made in the Ottumwa cemetery.
Mrs. Weber was born in Ottum wa
| February Is, 1884. She attended the
| Ottumwa public schools, leaving the
| high school class of 1908 when in her
third year, to attend Cornell college
at Mt Vernon After studying two
years in that institution she completed
her education at Missouri university
in Columbia, Mo. Mrs Weber was
a member of the ri Beta Phi sorority
and also of the T. E. O. society
May 1. 1907 she was united in mar
riage to Clarence A. Weber of Mime.
apolis, a prominent young attorney of
that city. Since that time she has
made her home in the Minnesota city.
Mrs. Weber was taken i'll when i'll
| New York in November when on a
visit with her husband. They came to
! Chicago and spent week visiting M
! Webber's parents and from there re.
turned to Minneapolis. She still con
tinued i'll and about the middle of De-
cember Mrs. Weber came to Ottumwa
| to spend the holidays with her par
ents.
Her condition gradually became
worse and an operation was deemed
necessary. which was performed last
I Tuesday, January 5. Little change was
apparent in her condition until Thurs
day, when a gradual improvement was
noted. This continued until Saturday
when the physicians announced that
she was practically out of danger and
on the safe road to recovery. Her con
dition continued better until about
$50 o'clock last night when she was
taken suddenly i'll again and expired
shortly before II o'clock today,
Pioneer Succumbs.
At his late home, 206 East Pennsyl
vania avenue, at s o'clock this morn
ing, Jacob G. Mast, one of the older
residents of Wapello county passed
away after having resided in the
county since 1865
Jacob G. Mast was born in Clark
county. Ohio, and remained resident
of that state until the year 1862 when
he removed to Illinois, and from
thence to Ottumwa in the year 1865
since which date he has constantly
resided in this city or vicinity, having
spent ten years as a resident Of
Agency.
In the year 1864 he was married &c
Miss Fannie e. Miller of Keosauuua
Iowa, who survives him. To then
We're born four sons: Frank M
Charles F.. I. Walter, and William H.
all of whom survive him.
Mr.. Mast. early In his life. III assa
with the NJ. z. church and remained
an active and consistent member
thereof to the date of his death. He
was man who lived up to his Chris
ton profession and as an honest ant
upright citizen has ever exerted in
quiet and unobtrusive way the infu
ences which must always flow from