The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-07-30
OBITUARY

Tuesday, with short services at
100 o'clock at the home and ad-
ditional services following at
Mt. Zion church. Rev. w. A,
Snider, Aurora, H., Bernard
Moss, Akron, and Rev. w. E.
Gray, church pastor, officiated
and burial was made at Friends
cemetery, Quaker City.
Mr.. Ankrom was crushed to
death early Saturday evening
when a tractor overturned as he
was driving it up a bank, crush
ing him to death. With him at
the time was his uncle, Perley
Ankrom, who eXtricated him
from the upset machine. They
were hauling fence material at
the time of the tragedy Mrs.
Ankrom and children were just
entering car to drive to Bates
Vile when the accident occur
red. She Immediately summoned
an ambulance and DR.. Reeder of
Barnesville, but Mr.. Ankrom
died before removal.
Surviving in addition to the
widow, Catherine Finley Ank-
rom and the children, Marie
Evelyn, 9, and Myrna Kay, 3, are
the parents, Charles and Mary
House Ankrom and the grand
mother, Mrs. Hiley Ankrom.
He was a member of the Mt.
Zion Advent Christian Church
and a well-known and respected
Noble county farmer. His tragic
death was a shock to the COM
munity as well as to the family.
The obituary is as follows:
AS the evening sun descended
over the western hills Saturday,
July l8, so descended the life of
Herbert Ray Ankrom, who was
born May %, 1911, aged AZ years,
l month, 81 days, the only son
of Charles and Mary House Ank-
rom, who with an aged grand
mother survive him.
On June 9, 1910, he was united
in marriage to Catharine Finley
who with two children, Marie
Evelyn, 9, and Myrna Kay, 3
mourn his passing. Ray, as he
was familiarly known, spent hi:
entire life in this community
therefore was widely known. He
was a friend to all who knew
him, being honest with all
industrious, friendly, kind, obed
lent to father and mother and tt
the God who gave us life an(
holdeth the power in His hant
to claim his own.
We can truly say that in tn,
midst of life we are in death, a
eXemplified in his tragic death
1t seems so hard that one il
life's prime would have to b
taken but we know we can no
understand Gods wisdom VIII
saw fit to bring about our crea
ton and being, but we do nc
, doubt His, justice nor-rtAat Il
e doeth all things we'll. So, we al
fully satisfied to leave Ray I
= His all-wise judgment and car
t and We are well aware that wha
e we say here will in no wis
e change his destiny but the lif
e that he has lived and the peac
+, he has made with his God tel
4 the whole story. We say with tn
e poet,
We know not where His Island
lift their fronded palms in al
We only know we cannot dri
beyond His love and care.
= Goodbye 20 Ray
Let not your heart be troubled
We hear our Master say,
a The Lord to us hath given
:. but now He's taken away,
e 1t seems so hard to understand
=, Just why these things should b
But if we put our trust in Hin
r Then some day we shall see.
In the stiffness of the morning
At the daWning of the day,
If you heard someone Whistlin
- Then you'd know that was Ra
: When evening chores were owe
\ Joyous laughter filled the air
| He was playing with his daugl
terS
/ Oh! How he loved that pair.
! He always loved big Minnie,
| Though it took his life today,
| Yet we can't blame the tractor
| 1t was simply just Gods way.
| His memories will inger
| To the worlds longest day,
| The hardest thing we'll have
Il do
| Is say Goodbye to Ray.
: 1t seems these things must ha
pen
, Some loved one goes away,
m This time it came to our hous
II This time I;e called on Ray.
n He'd never want us to be sad
III And pine the years away,
H The thing he'd want the most
HI from us
" Would be just - Goodbye Re-
= When something funny happene
"Who laughed so loud, they
say,
But no one had to answer,
Most folks knew twas Ray.