Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
OUR MOTHER.

friends. Only i'll since the previous
Tuesday, her condition was not con-
sidered alarming until late Saturday
evening, when one of the attacks OF
liver trouble to which she had been
subject for years suddenly developed
into pneumonia, rendered fatal by
heart failure. So sudden and brief
was her illness that nearly all her
Eagle River friends learned Of it
first with the neWsof her passing
away.
The second eldest child Of ]. n.
and Mary Trip, she was born in
Fowler, Ohio, May 49, 1848, the day
that Wisconsin was admitted into
the Union. At five years Of age she
came to Wisconsin with her parents,
settling upon farm in the town Of
Scott, Columbia County. Here she
grew up to womanhood, adopting
teaching as profession until her
marriage to Charles Richards, May
III, 1871. The first years of her mar
ried life were spent at Pardeeyille,
| Wyocena, Harrisville and Oxford,
where her husband operated the vii
lage ffour-mills. Purchasing sini-
| liar property at PackWaukee in 1870,
except for brief period at Marke-
san over thirty years of contimgsous
residence were spent in that local
lity, during which time her husband
changed his occupation to that OF
printing During all those years she
was constantly active in all efforts
| for civic betternlent and will be long
remembered there for her aid to the
sick and her Well-RnoWn hospitality
Her acquaintance in Eagle River be
gan in 1912, when her husband and
| son became owners and publishers OF
the Review. 1t is a source of much
satisfaction to her children that her
| last years were spent in a place whege
she found wider circle of perfectly.
congenial friends than at any other
period of her life.
Three children were born, all of
whom survive her: Verne, present ed
itor of this paper; Mary, Minneapo-
lis teacher; and Pearl, who teaches
at Racine. Other immediate rela-
tiyes are two sisters: Mrs. Julia A.
Thomas of Eagle River; and Miss Ida
Trip of Edmunds; also a brother,
Chas. P. Trip Of Portage, all being
present at her funeral. Her husband
preceded her through the Great
White Portal by less than six months,
his death occurring at his home here
on May "a of the present year.
From early girlhood she was very
Jealous worker in the Prohibition
cause, first in the /. @. c. e., and in
later years the. w. G. T. o., that Or
ganiZation attending in a body the
service held at the Congregational
church at three o'clock on Tuesday
in charge Of the Woman's Club. In
the splendid tribute to her, uttered
| by Rev. Waters, the large number
of sorrowing friends who came to bid
her last farewell, and in the unus-
ual profusion of floral messages of
sympathy it was revealed that she
will be widely mourned outside her
family circle.
| Owing to the frequency of this de-
mand upon us, ito anyone familiar
with the work of getting out news
paper the foregoing statement Of
facts has been simple task to write.
But today, with heart full of sad
ness, it is far beyond our power to ex-
press all that could be said of our
mother. Her own immediate family,
fglancing backward down the years,
/ know better than all others what a
splendid struggle against the might
lest forces Of suffering this frail wo-
man fought. Through it all, her
courage never faltered, never sought
a compromise with wrong that the
present might be less trying. Love
of her family came first at all times
with never a thought for herself, and
1 from the time her children were first
able to take their small but real sor
rows to her, to the last, not one ever
left her without lightened heart.
Yet faithful as she was to her home
duties, that she kept up to the enc
her loyalty to public service, is all toe
eloquently testified by pair Of sol
diers' wristlets that lie half-knitteC
as she laid them down last week
i Always possessed of untiring ambi
tion, never fearing to stand for the
right and all that tends to make bet
ter men and women, if her children
have failed to gain some Of her higl
ideals and unf1inching resolution
blame them, not her. Yesterday as
we left her lying quietly at rest be
side our father whom we laid there
not six months ago, to go back to the
home never to be the same again