Kalamazoo County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eberstein, Clyde October 7, 1918
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The Climax Crescent, October 18, 1918
Clyde Eberstein died at the Base Hospital at Camp Custer, near Battle Creek, 
Michigan at six thirty o'clock on the evening of Monday, October 7th, 1918 
while in the service of his country.

He was born November 1888 in the Village of Climax, Kalamazoo County, Michigan 
and there grew to manhood.  After graduating from the Climax High School in 
1905, he attended business college at Battle Creek and taught school in the 
neighborhood of his home.  His father, being in the service of the Department 
of Justice of the United States was obliged to leave Climax with his family, 
but Clyde remained to finish his schooling there, residing with his Uncle and 
Aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hamilton, many years.  Of his parents and his home 
life with his Aunt and Uncle he ever spoke with deep affection.

In the fall of 1909 he entered the Law School of the Northwestern University 
at Chicago, graduating in June 1912 and immediately thereafter was upon 
examination admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois.  But love of 
home was strong in his breast and he determined to go back to Michigan to 
practice his profession.  So that in the fall of 1912 he became associated 
with the law firm of Stewart & Sabin at Battle Creek and while there was upon 
examination admitted to practice his profession in the State of Michigan.

In the Spring of 1915 he was elected a Justice of Peace for the City of Battle 
Creek, which office he held to the time of entering the service of his country.

All who knew him were his friends and once his friend no action on his part 
ever betrayed that friendship.  He was an ideal citizen ever mindful that 
uprightness of character and examples were duties he owed to his associates, 
so that compartively young in the professonal and public life of Battle Creek, 
he was approached for advice and relied upon by the community.  All classes of 
people respected him.

Soon after the United States entered the war, he began to feel that his duty 
to his Country was greater than his duty to the judical office to which the 
people had elected him.  He endeavored to enlist in the Navy, but was 
rejected, then he waived his exemption as a public official, and went into the 
sevice of his country as a common soldier.  He had been at Camp Custer less 
than a month when stricken with Spanish Influenza, sweeping over our Military 
Camps, which resulted in his death.

His life and death were typical of the best there is among mortals,  What he 
had in life he offered freely and fairly to his friends, and with the same 
unselfishness he offered his life to his Country as a sacrifice to the 
regeneration of the peoples of the Earth.  What greter thing can man do!

The funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Glenn Hamilton and was one of the most largely attended funerals held in 
Climax in years.  Rev. W. R. Kitzmiller officated.  The Masonic services were 
impressive and the large attendance of representative men from Battle Creek 
gave evidence of the high esteem in which the deceased was held in that city.  
Internment Climax cemetery 

(For interested individuals the newspaper article also included the funeral 
sermon, family card of thanks and resolutions of respect from his masonic 
lodge)

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