Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-29
DEATH AGAIN TAKES
ITS RELENTLESS TOLL
Dr.. Glenn Hymer Yielded to
the Grim Reaper
Former Lancaster Young Man Laid
Low in Death When Life
Looked Brightest

In his twenty n NTH year, DR..
Glenn o. Hymer was taken from the
many who held him in such high
esteem.
Thoroughly educated and prepared
for his profession of medicine, in
which he had already achieved re-
markable success, the loss is keenly
felt.
He graduated from Lancaster High
school in 1906, attended the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in Mil
waukee for two years, graduated
from the Medical College of Mar
quette University in 1910, and
entered Asbury hospital in Min
neapolis, where he remained as an
inferno for year. With this
preparation DR.. Hymer began the
active practice of his profession in
Olivia, Minnesota, where he remained
for two years, leaving to enter the
partnership of Drs. Hagan & Hymer at
Williston, N. D., where his success
as surgeon gave him rapid advance
ment. He had made many friends
who valued both his ability and his
friendship highly, and his future was
bright, not only of his personal sue
| cess, but as to the service he was
already rendering to his fellowmen.
Added to his preparation and abili-
ty, DR.. Hymer had everything to live
for. His hometies in Lancaster
were of the most pleasant kind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Hymer, his
father and mother, were justifiably
proud of him, as were his seven
brothers and sisters, Thomas, Harold,
Howard and Horace Hymer, Jr., and
Olive, and Myrna Hymer, and Mrs.
Maude McGlashen. To this family
circle he had added a new member by
his marriage in October of year ago
with Miss Sadie Perry of Madison,
Minnesota. And all of these were,
without warning, plunged into the
deepest sorrow by the sad news of
sickness, wasting disease and death,
which came so lately and so suddenly.
A city prides itself in the achieve
ments of her younger sons, whether
they are wrought upon her own
hearth stone or away from home.
1t follows with keen interest the
careers of those who have gone forth
from her doors. There is no sorrow
deeper than wuen one of these-the
loved and loving son, brother, hus-
band, friend, dies in mornings man.
hood, and while the shadows still
were falling toward the west. And
when the Almighty elects to take from
US one whose ability was proved, and
who was looking forward to life
time of worthy service to his fellow
men, the manner of His selection be-
comes one of the inscrutable mysteries
of the universe. And we are only
consoled with the thought that some
how, after all, 1T may be best, just
in the happiest, sunniest hour of all
the voyage, while eager winds are
kissing every sail, to dash against
an unseen rock, and in an instant
hear the pillows roar above the
sunken ship. For, whether in mid
sea or 'mong the breakers on the
farther shore, wreck at last must
mark the end of each and all. And
every life, no matter if its hour is
rich with love and every moment
jeweled with a joy, will, at its close,
become tragedy as sad and deep as
can be woven by the warp and wool
of mystery and death.
He leaves behind him. free from grief and
years,
Far worthier things than tears.
The love of friends, without single foe,
Unequaled lot below"
So was it with our Doctor Hymer
The boyhood friends of his foot
ball days in the Lancaster High
school remember nought but
friendship and kindness. The col
lege friends, his patients whom he
sustained through trial and sickness
by his never-failing cheerfulness,
his associates in the medical profess
sion, had one and all admired and
loved the wholesome, whole-souled
spirit with which he faced the world
The tragedy of his last sickness the
brave manner in which he faced the
end he knew was fast approaching,
the quiet way in which he urged
those about him to bear up under the
inevitable sorrow, cannot be told in
words. And when the last peaceful
sleep closed his eye-lids forever, we
who are left have the consolation of