River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-11-06
POSTMASTER HADDOW
CALLED BY DEATH


The great number of friends who
gathered at the Congregational
church on Wednesday afternoon and
the masses of beautiful flowers at
tested the love and respect in which
the community held John A. Had
dow, who died November 2, 1924.
He was born at Walkertown, On
tario, Canada, on October %, 1854;
but he has spent most of his life in
and near River Falls. On December
10, 1896, he married Miss Lulu Will
liamsI of this city. Two children
were born to them; one died in in
fancy; the second, Norval, is now a
physician in Chippewa Falls, Wis.
On March A, 1917, his first wife died,
and six years later, on April Il,
1923, he was married to Mrs. Mar
garet B. Mclean of River Falls.
Mr.. Haddow also leaves an aged
mother, Mrs. Robert Haddow; a
sister, Mrs. George Douglas; and a
brother, David Haddow-all Of Gilcy,
N. D., besides large family con
nection.
The funeral service was in charge
of the Masons, of whose order Mr.
Haddow was a member. DR.. Thrush
spoke appropriately Of Mr.. Haddow's
character; and male quartet con-
sisting of Messers. Smart, Norseng,
Geere and Chapman, furnished beau
tiful and fitting music.
Mr.. Haddow is so well known to
the entire community that little
need be said of his character and
his place among US. With his pass
ing his family loses q devoted, af-
fecionate, and loyal member; and
che city loses one of it's most highly
respected and best loved citizens.
He was a father who was true
.''pal" to his son through the years
of the latter's boyhood and youth;
he was man heartily devoted to the
happiness and well-being of his i'm
mediate family; he was neighbor
always ready to do friendly turn;
he was the wholly dependable
friend of the small boy and the
small girl, and a stanch advocate 4
their rights; he was citizen essen
TALLY a part of the town---a man
whose genial presence all will miss.
The keynote Of his life, as Dr..
Thrush pointed out, has been a
geniality and a friendliness which
have made him everybody's friend
and everybody his friend. This
kindness was a natural and spon-
| taneous expression of a genuine af-
| lection for people-old and young,
rich and poor, fortunate and unfor-
tunate. He was friendly not only in
thought and word, but in deed as
we'll He was never too busy to help
out-not at all in a spirit of duty,
but wholly as one who did what it
best pleased him to do. His epitaph
might well read, write me as one
who loved his fellowmen.''
| Mr.. Haddow was, moreover, a man
Of unfailing good cheer. In all his
clean, wholesome, genial life, few
have ever heard complaint pass his
lips. His optimism was, no doubt,
part of his unselfish and wholly
unconscious desire to make others
happy. Even on the last morning
of his life he said to his faithful
wife, who has given him the most
devoted care, 81 am so happy this
morning." Had he been a poet, he
might have said with truth:
Because / have loved life shall
have no sorrow to die.
/ give a share of my soul to the
world where my course is run.
| know that another shall finish
the task / must leave undone.
l know that : flower, no flint was
in vain in the path / trod.
As one looks on a face through a
window, through life l have looked
on God.
Because | have loved life, shall
have no sorrow to die"