The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-05-30
Mrs. L. s. Robinson.

veyed by a dispatch from Ottumwa
Monday evening, May 20, announc-
ing the death in that city OF Mrs. l..
S. Robinson of GlenwOod. -,
Mrs. Robinson was terminating a
delightful visit of four weeks with
her only sister, Mrs. E. G.. Moon, at
OttumWa.
Mrs. Robinson had spent four days
with her the preceding week and it
was arranged that she return to her
kcne on Tuesday.
Saturday evening she complained
of slight sore throat to which SIM
pie remedies were APPLIED. Sunday
evening a physician was summoned
and on examination assured her that
her return home need be delayed but
day or two. Monday morning con-
ditiors remained the same and Mrs.
Robinson spent the day moving
about the house upstairs and down
using the usual simple remedies for
tonsilitis.
Shortly after o'clock p. m. Mrs.
Moon went to the lower floor on an
errand but on hearing a rapping on
the floor above Immediately returned
to find Mrs. Robinson breathing
with the greatest difficulty.
Mrs. Moon at once telephoned a
physician Mrs. Robinson followed
her down stairs and while Mrs.
Moon was at the phone her sister
went to the back porch. The phys
ician responded Immediately arriv-
ing within a few minutes. He found
Mr.. Robinson standing on the porch
in the condition in which Mrs. Moon
!: in ho hof
She was unable to speak but under
stood everything that was said and
at the direction of the doctor sat
down in chair on the porch. A hur-
ried but complete examination Of
the throat disclosed that was not
the cause of her peril. She sank
rapidly despite remedies applied by
|hypodermic injections. Once she
rallied but only for an instant, and
within thirty minutes from the time
when the call was received by the
doctor she had passed away. Her
death is attributed to acute oedema
of the lungs due to an embolus or
clot carried by the blood into the
lung passages producing su1ocatlon.
Mr.. Robinson was at once notified
by long distance telephone and i'm
mediately left, with his son, Lewis,
for Ottumwa, where they arrived at
/ o'clock a. m.
The remains were brought to Glen
wood Tuesday evening and taken to
the home where the funeral services
were held Thursday, May %, con-
Quoted by the Reverend l. D. Stone
of the Congregational church OF
which Mrs Robinson was a member.
OF the relatives of the deceased,
aside from her husband and son,
there were attending the services
her father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. M. Mowatt of Buffalo, Mo-, her
brother, Jno. S. Mowatt, of Arkansas
City, Kan, her sister, Mrs. p. G.
Moon of Ottumwa, with her husband
and son.
A great number of friends of the
bereaved family visited the home
Wednesday and Thursday and the
attendance at the funeral was ex-
ceptionally large. The floral Offer
ings were of the most beautiful and
came in the greatest profusion.
Among them was a large wreath
rendered by sixty business men of
Glenwood.
Marian Mowatt Robinson was
born at Sea View, Prince Edward
Island, Canada, November 3Oth,
1857. She was the daughter OF st.
Clair M. Mowatt and Agnes Suther-
land Mowatt. She married L. S.
Robinson, at Leon, Iowa, Nov. 80,
1887. Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson came
to Glenwood in September, 1888,
where they have resided since that
time.
Marian Robinson had in this COM
munity q very wide circle of friends.
She and her husband came here in
the vigor of young life. They became
a part of the life of the community.
1t is impossible to speak of her in
f1uence without coupling the names
of the two just as it would be i'm
possible to speak of his influence
without doing the same. Her mar
|riage was the happiest possible
union and when this is true the pen
of writer cannot find words, as
not even death itself, can separate
and divide and say this was her
life and influence and this was his
She was kind, but possessed a
character that adhered to convic-
lions. She was most energetic and
ola what she set HERSELF " w,
whether a physical or mental task,
with all her strength. She was am
bilious in the most laudable sense
of the term and she was generous.
She was true to the bonds Of friend
ship, true to filial obligations, true
to the exalted duties of wifehood
and motherhood. These qualities
she had and, having them, she was
what these qualities constitute, the
best that is in womanhood, the high
est that is in citizenship.
It is one function of newspaper
to report the news. 1t is another
function to publicly express the SEN
timent and feeling of the community.
The first function is performed in
tho sad details which no regrets can
change. The second function we
discharge by voicing, insofar as we
can, the grief at loss sustained, a
grief that pervades the city, that
was her home, grief that tesifies
to her worth and to the estimate in
which she was held where she was
known So well. Opinion.