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WAUPACA
RECORD LEADER April
27, 1916 FORMER
WAUPACA VETERAN EDITOR DIED IN MICHIGAN W.H.
Holmes, One Time Proprietor of the Waupaca Republican Stricken
With Apoplexy. - Funeral
and Burial Services in This City Held
Under Auspices of Local Masonic Lodge. - Was
Instrumental in Effecting Many Municipal
Improvements While Here. This community was shocked and
grieved to learn of the death last Friday, April 21, 1916, of W.H. Holmes at
Concord, Mich. the cause was apoplexy,
he was stricken Saturday, April 8th, at the home of relatives, where he was a
guest at the time. His daughter, Mrs.
Mackaye H. Crosswell, of Milwaukee, and his son, Shirley, of Chicago, rushed to
the bedside of the stricken man and ministered to his every need; but he spoke
no words from the time the affliction visited him until the heavy hand of Death
was laid upon him two weeks later. Following funeral services held at
Concord, the body was brought to Waupaca, arriving here last Tuesday morning;
the remains lay in state at the Holly undertaking rooms until 1:30 at which
hour it was followed by the local Masonic lodge to Lakeside cemetery for
interment. Here the impressive burial
service of that order was conducted by George W. Miller, assisted by E.B.
Jeffers and Chr. H. Hansen. The local
lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which order the deceased was also a member, led
by Chancellor Commander L.D. Smith and Vice Chancellor C.J. Knight and under
command of S.W. Johnson escorted the Masons to the cemetery. At the grave music was furnished by Messrs.
Henry Nelson, Matt Ovrom, Ben Peterson, and George Lindahl. Winslow Hale Holmes was born at
Concord, Mich., December 17, 1843; he was therefore in his 73rd year at the
time of his death. He early learned the printer’s trade
and continued in the newspaper department of the business through a long and
useful career. As a lad he went with
the firm that founded the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen and carried from the office
for distribution it’s first papers; later he became associated with the
Hasting, (Mich.) Journal and the Ripon (Wis.) Free Press. In 1884 he became proprietor of the Waupaca
Republican; he edited this paper until 1908 severing his connections with the
paper at that time. Following his withdrawal from the Republican, now merged
with the Waupaca Post, he went to Bayfield and established the Bayfield
Progress. He maintained his connection
with this paper until two years ago, retiring then upon the death of his
wife. Being now 71 years of age he
decided to take his first vacation; he went to California and visited among his
relatives and other friends and had just returned to Michigan to visit at his
old home when the end came. He was married to Hettie K. Lathrop;
to them were borne six children: Etta,
Mrs. Mackaye Crosswell of Milwaukee; David, deceased; Carol, Duluth; Glenna,
Mrs. Ingolf Larson of Appleton; Shirley of Chicago; Willis of Adrian,
Mich. All the living children save
Willis attended the funeral. Mrs. I.M.
Dakin of the Wisconsin Veterans’ Home was a sister to Mrs. Holmes. W.H. Holmes, as one with whom we
spoke said, was good hearted, kindly disposed toward all men and had for them a
cheery greeting; although unblessed in abundance of material things he never
lost heart and was always optimistic.
To him, long before their realization, it was given to dream dreams and
to see visions of waterworks and other municipal improvements in this city; of
an electric line to “the Home”, of the opening of the Granite Quarry. He was eloquent and persistent in his plea
for these things. through his
persistency in advocating such impossible things, all now realized, he earned
the sobriquet of “Grandma” which became as mellowed with passing years a term
of endearment. At Bayfield he organized
the Fruit Growers’ Shipping association as part of his work in Horticulture;
the latter was hobby. The newspaper profession has lost a valiant exponent and the state an honorable citizen. We mourn with those who mourn. |