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Obituary- Ishmael, Henry

Henry E. Ishmael

Henry Elvin Ishmael passed away at 11:45 Tuesday night at his home, June 4, 1936, on the Navarre place adjoining Rossville on the northwest. He had been ill for the previous ten days.

Funeral services were held this (Thursday) afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Christian church conducted by Revs. G.G. Horne of Topeka and Erby Messimer, the local pastor

Music for the service was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. F.F. Dawdy of Topeka.

Following the service the body was taken to Topeka to the Conwell Mortuary and will be taken on, Friday, to Meadville, Mo., his boyhood home, for burial.

Mr. Ishmael was born in Alpha, Mo., Feb. 2, 1870, being 66 years and four months old on the date of his death. In 1989 when the Spanish-American war broke out, he enlisted for service and served until the conflict was over, and a few years later, he was united in marriage to Gussie Williams, on June 14, 1902, at Wheeling, Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. Ishmael had spent most of their married life in Kansas, at Morganville and for the past 22 years in Rossville, working most of that time at his trade as blacksmith.

He was a member of Hesperian Lodge, A.F.&A.M. No.111, and Security Benefit Association, No. 221 of Rossville. Early in life he joined the Christian church and was one of its most devoted members, generous in his financial support and earnest in his endeavor to live an upright Christian life.

Quiet, unassuming, he was a good neighbor, kind and devoted to wife and his home, and qualified for every virtue that makes for a good citizen.

Besides the friends he leaves to regret his passing, he is survived by his widow, and two brothers, Joseph, of Laredo, Mo. and William of Chula, Mo.

Just an ordinary mane,
The type you often meet,
On the busy market place
Or on the crowded street.

His features never graced the screen
Because of daring deed;
Nor has his name e'er filled the press.
Because of some strange creed.


Just an ordinary man,
But with a smile so rare,
A hand-clasp that would drive away
Your sorrow and despair.

Speaking words of courage
Following the Master's plan,
Would the world had many more
Like this ordinary man.

The following local men acted as good neighbors, Monday, when they went out to Henry Ishmael home where he lay desperately ill, and spent a couple of hours cultivating the garden: F.E. Zickefoose, Sherman James, J.C. Startup, W.W. Morgan, John Rouse and C.W. Vorhies. --4 June 1936

Mrs. Gertrude Williams of Kansas City, came to Rossville, Wednesday evening , called by the death of H.E. Ishmael. Mrs. Williams is a sister of Mrs. Ishmael. --4 June 1936

Mrs. Gussie Ishmael returned Monday from Meadville, Mo., following the burial service last Friday afternoon of her husband, the late H.E. Ishmael. --11 June 1936

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