The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-08-06
LAST TRIBUTE PAID j
To DEAD SOLDIER
MILITARY FUNERAL
FOR GLENN KINDIG
The Body Arrives in Old Home gown
And Now Rests in Peace in tn.
HallOwed Ground of Spring Grove
Cemetery.

Comrades and citizens generally a.,
sembled at the Congregational church
Monday afternoon to pay final tribute
to the memory of the late Glenn Kin
Olga well-known Medina boy,who die,i
in Coblenz, Germany, June II, 1919,
while in the service of his country in
the world war, and whose body reach
ed his old home town on Thursday
evening of last week.
All places Of business in the villag.
were closed during the obsequies AM
the church was filled with friends anu
American Legion members, under tn
latter of which the funeral was in
charge.
The services were begun by the sing
ing of beautiful number entitled,
"Sleep On, Brave Heart" by a quar-
Itet composed of Messrs Louis Best,
Fred Bohley, Marshall Bryant and
M. J. Deyell. Lieut.. John Moore,
commander Of Courtney Lawrence
Post, American Legion, spoke briefly,
fol woledb rryypeaff ,.; ,.:; fiji
followed by prayer by Rev. Wallace
H. Bryenton of the Methodist church.
THE funeral address was by DR.. VIM
J. Drew, pastor of the Congregations
church and follows:
And so Glenn Kindig has come home
and we have paused in the days oc-
icupation to do him reverence and to d.
him honor and we do well, for he is
worthy of it. he who thought it out,an-
sion. enlisted and sailed thru lanes OF
danger. over the seas to fight and
serve in a great cause. And so are
they all worthy of this silent tribute as
the ey seas as she he has se Come ne Not t WITH r HS
shield but upon it. All! upon his
shield, but with honors and with lau-
!!rels. And in mute presence, but with
a good record as one who has quit him
lself like a man and fought good fight
Sadness and sorrow are in our midst
because the fortunes of war have de-
to his old town, but there is a sense of
solemn pride in our town and in our
, midst today, in spite of the pain at the
heart of our life. in this boy who count
glory of supreme sacrifice which he has
Imade and which he was of course fully
laware might come.
With his country's flag draped about
him he has returned upon his shield.
/ but it is a shield he Loyalty. and man
, fully bore on the field of glory. For
SO has the struggle in the region
round md chateau u.as i Trhierry been called For
r be found no more glorious record than
] that which crowned with laurel the
!. American forces at CHATEAU Thierry
orses wers hron nere agase nf he Gs
q man tide of invasion like huge khaki .
the supreme test of the empire had
come. 1t was now the test of Ameri-
metal h,4
story of the American army's effective
Operations in France from Cantigny to
the reduction of St. Mihiel salient is
one long record of victories.
7 And upon his shield is written Can
WAR ne ss he grest German eenSSf vcfor%
+ drive was on and every day registere |
! a new allied defeat Newspaper head =
i lines were almost despairing. How
s ever, one May morning, in quiet type,
I under great headlines announcing a
German gain of ten miles, the capturt
i of scissors, the crossing of two rivers
n and the threatening of Rheims, there
a appeared the little dispatch from Gen
: eral Pershing:
i This morning in Picardy our troops
, attacked on a front of one and one
fourth miles, advanced our lines and
captured the village of Cantigny. Hos
tile counter attacks broke down und, +
our fire"
The gallant defence Of the victor =
] followed, which won from the London
Evening, News, Bravo the young AM
ericans."
:. Scissors, where for five days the bat :
y tie ragged, three days of which She we s
: without rations.
: From there he went to the hospita
Sept IL he is in the midst of the
!, struggle for the st. Mihiel salient This
j date marked the 4th anniversary OF
t the establishment of the salient which
t reached from German lines in the d.
r on a grand scale and the salient was
r wiped out.
In the st, Mihiel salient he was
wounded.
soissins, St. Mihiel, wounds the Al :
/, gonne, with the army of occupation at
q Hillscheid, q few miles from Coblenz,
n one of the Rhine river bridge-heads
: He has lived in deeds rather tha l
years. He has played his part, he ker
: the faith. fought the fight, finished thn
: course, he has played the game. :.
n game intensified by the convictions hc
had of human liberty and human sci ,
: vice. Like freeman he played tn
n game, who realized with Browning:
|. Then life is to wake and not to SLEEP
y Rise and not rest. but press
From earth's level where blindly cree
Things perfected more or less
!, To heavens height, far and deep"
= We pause to pay our tribute of hon
or and loving gratitude for his ser
= hood he may have possessed and for thn
!. patriotic passion which was his. We
!, are glad to know of his integrity anl
t industry while in his home environ
J. Iment and we cherish his avowed faith
lin the God Of Battles and of home
Ipeace and ministry.
l. We look thru tear mists, but we re-
i Ijoice to read the record, which was
q written for us and for any, upon tbs
Il shield which has borne him with hor-
: ors, HOME! Home to his native town
" home to undisturbed repose in beauti
full Spring Grove, until the sweei
I full Spring Grove, until in the sweet
i day breaks and the shadows flee awa.,
l. At the close of the address, tb;
l. members of the Legion passed fro,
). the church, taking a position at "s;
t, lutte" on either side of the outside pa
sage way through which the caske
was borne by the pall-bearers -Brya'
Case, Faye Fenton, Harry Kern, Ed
q ward Kennan, Earl Alick and An
d drew Long, boyhood friends and con,
e rades-in-arms Of the deceased.
It The casket, draped with the natior
i lal colors, and profusely covered wit
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