Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Webster, Oscar F. 1921
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Belding Banner News – Wednesday, 1 November 1921
Belding Banner News – Wednesday, 1 November 1921

FOUR ANSWER DEATH SUMMONS IN SHORT TIME
Grim Reaper Gets Busy With Scythe Sunday Night and Monday Morning

The grim reaper got into action Sunday night and Monday morning and as a 
result there is mourning in four homes in this city and among the many friends 
which the three adults who answered the call had in this city and vicinity.

Perhaps the most prominent in the four people who died was Oscar F. Webster, 
manager of the Herald Publishing Company and for forty years closely 
identified with the growth and development of this city in every way that a 
public spirited citizen could be called upon to act.  Mr. Webster had been ill 
at his home for the past seven months and his condition for several weeks past 
has been considered critical.  In fact for several months past, little, of any 
hopes had been held for his recovery.

Mr. Webster was born at Syracuse, N. Y., on March 25, 1855 and died Tuesday 
morning, November 15 at four o’clock after one of the gamest battles against 
disease which any man ever put up. During all his illness our friend never 
whimpered, never complained and while life was still full of hope and held a 
great deal of promise for him, he asked and expected nothing out of the 
ordinary in his case and with a calm resignation he awaited the end, which he 
felt was soon at hand.

On May 17, 1879 he was united in marriage to Miss Luella Kingsley, at 
Kingsley, this state and to this union were born two children, Luella, better 
known as Pussy, and Edwin Q.  Luella died a number of years ago while still a 
girl in the local school and Edwin is manager of a large store at Onaway.  
Mrs. Webster died about seven years ago and the mother, Mrs. Caroline Webster, 
a sister, Mrs. J. E. VanWormer of Greenville and the son, Edwin, are the near 
relatives who survive.

Mr. Webster went into railroad telegraph work when a young man and was located 
for a time at St. Louis, Ill., later on going to Detroit and then to 
Greenville, coming to this city in 1881.  There never was during all those 
forty years, a proposition came up which was for the good the community but 
what “Web” as he was commonly known, was on the right side and one of the 
first ones there at that.  As a business man, he was honest to the last degree 
and no man ever had a better and fairer competitor than did those men who 
happened to be engaged in the same line of business and in the same place as 
was Mr. Webster.

He was a member of the modern Woodmen and the Knights of Pythias.  His funeral 
will be held on Friday afternoon at two o’clock, from his late home, corner of 
Pleasant and W. Congress streets and burial will be in the family lot in River 
Ridge cemetery.



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