The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-30
GEORGE GREENE CHAMBERS

After years of weakness and sui.
fering and months of confinement to
his bed, the wearied body of George
Chambers, Tuesday evening, sank
into its lasting rest, while his brave
spirit rose to meet the everlasting
day.
So long had the sick boy suffered
and so we'll was it known his case was
hopeless that it was no surprise to his
friends to know the end had come, and
all felt relief that his pain and weari-
ness were over, but this does not pre-
vent great sadness when they realize
that his friendly voice and cheerful
smile shall never greet them again.
We speak of George Chambers as
a boy-so he was, stripping in his
teens, when we first knew him, and so
he has ever seemed boy to all his
friends, but in years he was middle
aged man. He was born at Orange
Lake thirty-seven years ago the 9th
of last June. He received his educa-
ton in the public schools of Marion
county and the East Florida Seminary
at Gainesville. He came to Ocala
with his parents almost twenty years
ago. Most of the time since then, I'M
til sickness pulled him down, he has
been on the police force Or in the fire
department He was a member of old
Company A, and served with it for
some years, retiring at the end of al,
enlistment in order to enter the fire
department. In September, 1917, tho
past the age limit and by no means
robust, he again volunteered into
Company A, for service in the World
War, and went with the company to
Camp Wheeler. He was there fo1
some weeks, and then the surgeons
deciding he was not physically able
he was given an honorable discharge
ard returned. He did full duty dur
ing the war, however, acting as chief
of the Ocala Fire Department, also
doing police duty when needed. He
was never we'll again after returning
from Camp Wheeler; he had an attack
of illness there which probably fast
ened upon him the disease which five
years later ended his life.
1t was not long after the war ended
that increasing weakness compelled
MIR. Chambers to resign his post as
fire chief, an Office he had held twice
Taught by his father, Hampton S
Chambers, Ocala's veteran fire chief
and with a natural adaptability fol
the work, George made a splendid re
cord, both as fireman and chief A:
his sickness was contracted in the
! service, Mr.. Chambers was entitled tt
government aid, and SO was sent tt
the army hospital at Greenviile, 8. C
| There he remained several months
and had the best of care, but the sur
geons decided there was no hope fol
him, and granted his wish to come
home He reached Ocala severa
months ago. and at once passed int
| the care of his devoted mother. Con
stantly and lovingly tended by her
with every comfort she could devise
and surrounded by faithful friends
his last days were filled with hour!
OF peace
| A kindly and helpful temperament
sincere desire to serve, has all hi!
days endeared George Chambers Il
! his friends. There was nothing tina
he would not do, or at least try to do
for his friends, and he was ever viii
! ing to go out of his way to show
courtesy even to the merest stranger
Of happy disposition himself, h.
was never so glad as when helping
others to be happy. But in the lin,