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- Douglas E. Helton
Prominent Ogden Citizen Dies After Very
Brief Illness-Stricken in Forenoon
Dies in Evening.
Ogden Courier
Friday, February 6, 1920, page 1
Our citizens were pained and shocked Saturday evening late to learn that our esteemed fellow citizen, Douglas E. Helton, had passed away. He was sick only a few hours, being stricken at 11:00 o’clock Saturday forenoon and died at 9:00 p. m. He was about town Saturday morning and at his place of business. He accompanied his partner Mr. Jay Freese, to Royal to help prepare the body of Mr. Luther Tillotson for burial. While working here he was suddenly taken ill and so remarked to Mr. Freese. Later he was removed to his house here and everything possible that loving hands and medical skill could do was done to save his life, but all to no avail. Mr. Helton was a man among men¾a man that we all loved, because of his kindly nature and good will to his fellow man. He was a public spirited citizen and always ready to boost for anything that meant a better town and community in which to live. He was interested in his town, his people and its public enterprises, always being among the first to help toward the starting of anything that he thought was good and right to be done in the community.
He was a jeweler b y profession and had conducted a jewelry store her for years. He was also associated with Mr. Jay Freese in the undertaking business.
The entire community mourns his sudden demise and joins in extending sympathy to the bereaved family.
Obituary
Douglas E. Helton was born October 2, 1862 in Stanton township north of St. Joseph, Illinois, and departed this life at his home in Ogden, Illinois, on January 31, 1920, at the age of 57 years, 3 months and 4 days. Mr. Helton was the youngest child of Simeon and Sarah Helton, belonging to a family of nine children, having two brothers and six sisters. All these have preceded him in death save two sisters, Mrs. Senena Sperry, of Ogden, Illinois, and Mrs. Julia Hill, of Guthenburg, Neraska.
On November 30, 1886, Mr. Helton was united in marriage to Miss Mabelle Yeazel. To this union one son was born, Elvin C. Helton, who joins his mother in this sad hour of grief over the departure of a beloved husband and father. Mr. Helton held many affiliations of fraternity and love with the organizations of his time and community. When but a boy he united with the New Light Christian Church, and later united with the Church of Christ, at Ogden, Illinois. He was a member of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lodge, No. 654, the Order of Eastern Star, No. 345, the Knights of Pythias, Corn City Lodge No. 560 and Pythian Sisters, No. 142, all of Ogden, Illinois. Besides the grief stricken wife and son and two sisters, Douglas E. Helton leaves many other relatives and a vast multitude of friends to sorrow over his departure. “Only a moment of dark, A dream of the fleeting night.
And then the beautiful break of day And the quiet peace of light; And you found yourself where you longed to stand, In the repose of the Fatherland.”
The Funeral
The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock conducted by Rev. W. G. Pulliam at the Methodist church. Rev. Pulliam spoke from the words: “Let Not Your Heat Be Troubled.” Mrs. W.G. Pulliam, Mrs. Clyde Harry and Daniel and Wm. Hahn sang three beautiful selections. The floral offerings were many and beautiful bearing silent testimony of the high regard and esteem in which the deceased was held. The pall-bearers were: Ernest Varney, Joseph Ackerman, James Scott, E. C. Firebaugh, William Hiller and Frank Fenters. Burial was made in the G. A. R. cemetery at Homer. From A Distance. Relatives and friends from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Riley Massey and two sons, Charles and Leland and their wives, of Covington, Indiana; Mr. John McKinney and son, Lorin, of Urbana and a host of other relatives and friends from Homer, St. Joseph, Fithian and other places. (transcribed by Homer Historical Society)
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