The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-11
PIONEERS EDITOR
CALLED BY DEATH

Business was totally suspended in
Roman for an hour yesterday morning
while the funeral services over
the remains of E. II. Rathbone were
locked their doors in token of respect
to the dead and the citizenry as a
unit joined in the last earthly rites
to respected friend and neighbor.
The obsequcs were held at the
family home and We're conducted in
the open air with the body lying in
state on the veranda, the casket
banked by wreaths of flowers and
surrounded by the sorroWing rela-
tives and friends of the departed. The
carmonies, in Difference to the habits
and tastes of e. H. Rathbone in life,
We're simple and dignified but impress
sive in the extreme.
A quartette, consisting of Mrs j. |.
Carr, Miss Olive Townsend, Messrs
Harold Resner and Martin Pippen-
burg, accompanied by Mrs. F. j..
White, pianist, opened the service by
singing Some Time Well Under
stand after which Rev. q. d. Swis-
her read the words of Paul on the
Resurrection and the Life from 1st
Cor. Is, 31-3S, also the prayer Of
Moses and part of the Goth Paslm
Miss Townsend and Mrs. Carr next
rendered the duet, Il Know He
Knows.
The funeral address was spoken
By Mr.. A. Nj. Thornburgh of Stevens
vile, Montana, a warm and close
friend, responsive to one of the last
requests of the deceased. 1t was a
feeling memorial on the life and
works of Harvey Rathbone as only
Mr. Thornburgh could speak it. Sim
pie. direct and Straightforward ana
talking, as asked by his departed
friend, "man to man" but performing
the task reverently and with deep
emotion as a labor of love.
AS voiced by the memorialist the
life and character was sincerity He
was frugal, honest and Industrious
and ever careful of his neighbors
reputation. In these he had the
qualities which make for the highest
character. His obligations to society
and to his fellowmen were discharg-
ett in full as he viewed them, and he
lived bravely, cheerfully and faith
fully in accordance with the strength
which was given him. In the final
analysis this is all that can be asked
OF the best man.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Thorn
burghs memorial those in attendance
viewed the remains while the quar-
tette sang Nearer My God To Thee"
after which the bereved relatives and
q long train of sorrowing friends in
automobiles accompanied the body to
Ravalli, from which point it was TAX
en- to Spokane for cremation by Mrs.
Rathbone and son Justus. Final
interment will be made of the ashes
in the Buckner cemetery five miles
east of Eldora, Iowa, where three
generations of the family have been
buried.
Acting as pail bearers were men,
bers of Romans first city council, of
b, i,h Incnoco1
They were Messrs. I. M. Brandjord, A.
j. Brewer, Harry N. Carper, ]. E. Cur
It's, Ross Lemire, c. Coulter and A.
N. Thornburgh. Floral offerings were
dedicated by the City Council of Ron
an, the Roman Commercial Club, the
Roman High School and host of
friends and neishbOrs. The High
School students and teachers and the
present city council attended in a
body.
T. II. Rathbone, editor and publish
er of the Roman Pioneer, died at his
home in this city Tuesday morning
OF acute Bright's Disease. He is sur
vived by wife, Margaret Elizabeth,
one son, Justus, at present business
manager of the Pioneer; a daughter,
Mrs. Hazel NJ. Putney; brother,
Coker F. Rathbone, of Roman and
sister, Mrs. Clarissa Bigalow, of
Marshalltown, Iowa. With the ex-
ception of the sister all were present
at the deathbed, as was likewise a
cousin, DR.. r. r. Rathbone, of Dillon,
Montana.
The deceased was born at Steam
beat Rock Iowa. on April 11th. 1865,
and was married April 30th, 1883, to
Margaret Elizabeth Bebb, of Herndon,
Kansas He was member of the