Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-09-19
Funeral Held in Ravenaa at
M. L. Church Wednesday
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
in Ravenna Cemetery

in RaVenna Cemetery
This has been a community
of mourning this week, ON &C.
count of the sudden and unex-
pec.ed taking off of Mrs. A. T.
Shellenbarger, who died in
an Omaha hospital, Monday of
this week, Sept. Och, 1912, hel
death following a very severe
surgical operation submitted to
a week earlier.
Mrs. Shellenbarger, wife of
one of our formast citizens, had
been very prominent in the
social, church and business life
of this community for nearly a
quarter of q century, and pro
badly had a larger circle of
friends and acquaintance
throughout this territory than
almost any woman in Ravenna
Until recent years Mrs. Shell
Ienbarger haa always been very
closely associ ted with her hus.
in his bu .lil'ss activities, as
merchant, m i.ur and banker,
and in this way her acquain
lance became very extensive.
and when her sudden death
was annoanee1 there was uni
versal grief thuugnout the en-
tire corn m1nity and the deep
est sympathy felt for MIR. Shell
lenbarger in his great bsreave-
ment.
Mrs. She'lenaa~ger was the
daughter of john s and Susan
Reedy, of Toledo, Iowa. She
was born Jan. lsr. 1853, and
and died S pF 9, 1912, making
her So wears, 8 months and 8
days of 2, g at the time Of her
death. She was united in mar
riage to Mr. Afaon T. Shel|en-
hargnr. If Toledo, Iowa, Nov.
21d, 1879. moving to Ravenna,
Neb i'm -SS7, whore they have
since resided. Mrs. Shellen-
barger ia survived by her hus.
band and three sisters and two
brothers, as follows: John
Reeay, G,bbrr, Meb F; d H.
Reedv, Of Mo Valley, Ia /; Mrs.
Lille Kellogg, of Omaha; Mrs
Daisy Sharp. of Toledo, low.
and Mrs. M A U lger, of
Bloomingdale, Mich.
Among the relatives who at
tended the funeral We're John
Reeav, of Gibbon. Mrs. Kellogg
of Omaha, Lyman Cary and
wife, of Kaarnev, Marshall
r ISIS and wife of Amherst and
Charles Clarke AMI wife, Of
. Poole
The funeral was held at the
M. e Church in this city, We'd
nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
. As a special mark of respect
!; business OF all kinds in Ravenna
was entirely SUSPENDED during
the funeral. The pail bearers
were Chas Miner VIM Riggs,
w. f. Richardson, j w Dun
kin, J. Fl II arrison and Samuel
Urwiller, and the honorary pail
bearers were Mayor lanes K.
, Reese, Carl Linn, George West,
r M Thompson, John Benson
and G. 3 Cass, representive of
of the CITY council and city Of
, ficials. The floral offerings
! were wrought in many appro
pirate designs and were many
, and BEAUTIFUL. The funeral
sermon was preached by Rev
Baker, pastor who preached
from the text, 81 said, o my
God take me not away in the
midst of my days psalm 1902:
"a Mr.. Baker SPOKE touch
ingly and beautifully of the
life and deeds of Mrs. Shellen-
barger, eulaglzlng her faithful
ness and her life of usesullness.
For Mr.. Shellanbarger the
) deepest sympathy is felt in
Ravenna The domestic rela-
tions of the Shellenbarger fam
lily have always been ideal, and
the bereaved husbands los of
his devoted helpmeet, his hard
some and happy home deprived
of it's mistress, is a staggering
blow for him, and in the realiz
alton of the this entire commun-
itv mourns with him Revenna
4 (Neb) Times.
Mr.. and Mrs A. #. Shellen-