Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Spouses
BirthFeb 6, 1872, Preble County, Ohio [56431]
DeathOct 31, 1955, Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio [56431]
BurialRoselawn Cemetery (Euphemia Cemetery), N Main Street, Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio [56431]
FatherJohn Peter MOOTS (1825-1896)
MotherEliza Ann OZIAS (1827-1917)
No Children
Obituary Online notes for Olive Gertrude BUNGER
Mr. And Mrs. E.T. Moots Die
Monday; Double Rites Today
Double funeral Rites for rites for Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots, a venerable Lewisburg couple, will be held at 2:30 this Thursday afternoon from Trinity Lutheran church, of which both had been members for many years. The services will be conducted by their pastor, the Rev. L.L. Spenny, and will be followed by burial in Roselawn cemetery on the lot were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Moots repose.
Mrs. Moots succumbed around 11 o'clock Monday night at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient a little over three weeks. She had suffered for several years from a pronounced attack of arthritis and also from a mental illness that at times superinduced almost mental frustration.
Mr. Moots was 83 years last February and Mrs. Moots was two months past 77. Their deaths occurring on the same day was unusual in the necrology history of this community.
Mr. Moots and the former Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Bunger, three miles ease of here on Route 40, by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, pastor at that time of the former Memorial Lutheran church. They observed their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 4, 1947, at their home, 317 North Main street, where they had lived since 1922.
Mr. Moots had been a member of the local IOOF lodge since 1897 and was awarded a 50-yer emblem, with several other members, in a special ceremony on Sunday, March 16, 1947. Both were also members of the Rebekah lodge and took an active part in its activities. Both orders held their ritualistic obsequies at the late home Tuesday night, where both lay in state and where they may be seen up to noon today.
Both died Monday but at opposite ends of the day. Mr. Moots expired at 2:30 a.m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, four miles northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for one or two days over two weeks. Mrs. Siler is a professional nurse and had nursed him from a week or 10 days in his own home.
Mr. Moots, a retired farmer, had been in declining health for several years. Although it was never fully confirmed it was believed he had a malignancy in the region of the stomach which was fairly well substantiated 24 hours before he expired. His death was assumed to be imminent three or four weeks before his demise but he later improved to such an extent, it was believed he might live for a year or two. He took a turn for the worse, however, Saturday night and early Monday morning slept away.
He is the last of his immediate family to answer the final summons, and is survived by only nieces and nephews, two of whom are Mrs. F. J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece, and Mrs. E.D. Banta.
Mrs. Moots is survived by one sister, Mrs. F. E. Hoerner, and a number of nephews and nieces, who are widely scattered. The only ones living here are Mrs. Roy Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
=====
OBITUARY
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots
Like wheat ready for the harvest, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thomas Moots were garnered to the fathers on Monday, October 31, at the respective ages of 83 years, 8 months and 15 days, and 77 years, 2 moths and 12 days. He expired at 2:30 a.m., when he peacefully slept away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for two weeks and where he was given professional care by Mrs. Siler. The light of her eve was extinguished at 10:55 p.m. the same day at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient over three weeks. Both had been in declining health for several years but he rallied a few weeks ago and it was thought he might live for an indefinite time.
Mr. Moots, son of John and Eliza Ozias Moots, was born on the old home farm, two miles south of Lewisburg in Twin township, and was the youngest of a family of four brothers and three sisters. He received his education in the neighboring little red school house and was proud of the fact that Miss Elma Bittle, who sacrificed her life as a EUB missionary in Sierre Leone, Africa, was one of his teachers.
Mrs. Moots was a daughter of Samuel I. and Mary Ann Disher Bunger and was reared in the old homestead, two and a half miles east of Lewisburg on Route 40. She was one of four sisters and three brothers. Besides the country district school, she attended the old Harrison township high school for one or two years.
Mr. Moots and Miss Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, then pastor of the former Memorial Lutheran church, and on May 4, 1947, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their late home on Main street, Lewisburg, where they lived since 1922.
Their local residence had been the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Moots during their married life lived at only three places, the other two having been on the old home farm with his mother and a farm a short distance east of Lewisburg on Route 40, now the Ross home.
They this traveled side by side for 58 years and all who knew them were agreed they were a most compatible and devoted couple. As Longfellow says in Hiawatha:
"As unto the bow the cord is, so unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Through she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other."
Their long and devoted career ended simultaneously, which is the way they would have ordered it if they had planned it.
Mrs. Moots was never permitted to be a mother and as a consequence she mothered her nieces and nephews, all of whom adored "Aunt Olive".
Mr. Moots was the last of his family to answer the great summons and is survived only by nephews and nieces, only two of whom are local residents, Mrs. E.D. Banta (Lucretia Singer), a niece, and Mrs. F.J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece.
Surviving Mrs. Moots are one sister, Mrs. F.E. Hoerner, and a number of nieces and nephews, who are widely scattered. The only two living in the community are Mrs. Roy C. Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
Mr. and Mrs. Moots were members of the local Lutheran church; she all her life and he by transference from another local church immediately after their marriage. For many years Mrs. Moots was active in the organizations of the church and taught in the primary department of the Sunday School. He ushered for many years and took great pride in the assignment.
Both were members of the Rebekah lodge and each took an active part in its activities until declining health compelled them to relinquish their participation. He was also a member of the local IOOF lodge and had fulfilled almost every post in that organization. In 1947 he was awarded a 50-year jewel, which he prized highly.
(Poem not included)
=====
Olive Moots
Double funeral services were held at Lewisburg for Edward T. Moots, 83, and his wife, Olive, 77, who died within 24 hours of each other.
Mr. Moots died at 2:30 a.m. last Monday at the Forest Siler residence on the Sonom road and Mrs. Moots died at 10 p.m. the same day at the McCoy rest home in Dayton. Both had been ill for some time.
Services were held Thursday at Trinity Lutheran church in Lewisburg with Rev. L.L. Spenny officiating. Burial was in Roselawn cemetery.
The only immediate survivor is Mrs. Moots' sister, Mrs. Julia Hoerner of Lewisburg. He was a member of the IOOF lodge here and both were members of the Lutheran church in Lewisburg.
====
Moots Couple Made Plans For Demise
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots had made complete and detailed plans as to funeral rites and disposal of property in anticipation of their demise, it was disclosed after both expired on Monday of last week within approximately 20 hours of each other. Funeral rites and burial plans had been made and wills had been executed in favor of one another with the surviving spouse to act as the executor of the decedent's estate. Provisions had also been made for alternates in case neither should survive the other or should be unable to fill the designated executorship.
Roy C. Smith, a nephew, was named to execute the will of Mr. Moots if his wife did not survive him or was unable to carry out the provisions of his will, and G. M. Kumler, a brother-in-law, was designated as the alternate in the will of Mrs. Moots. As the two estates can be executed simultaneously, Mr. Kumler declined the appointment in favor of Mr. Smith, who will execute both wills.
The double funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran church, of which both were long-time members, and were attended by a large concourse of relatives and friend. The final rites were in charge of the Rev. L. L. Spenny, their pastor, who delivered a very appropriate sermon for the occasion.
Double funeral and burial services were the decedents died natural deaths, are unusual in the necrology annals of this community. [56432]
Monday; Double Rites Today
Double funeral Rites for rites for Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots, a venerable Lewisburg couple, will be held at 2:30 this Thursday afternoon from Trinity Lutheran church, of which both had been members for many years. The services will be conducted by their pastor, the Rev. L.L. Spenny, and will be followed by burial in Roselawn cemetery on the lot were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Moots repose.
Mrs. Moots succumbed around 11 o'clock Monday night at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient a little over three weeks. She had suffered for several years from a pronounced attack of arthritis and also from a mental illness that at times superinduced almost mental frustration.
Mr. Moots was 83 years last February and Mrs. Moots was two months past 77. Their deaths occurring on the same day was unusual in the necrology history of this community.
Mr. Moots and the former Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Bunger, three miles ease of here on Route 40, by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, pastor at that time of the former Memorial Lutheran church. They observed their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 4, 1947, at their home, 317 North Main street, where they had lived since 1922.
Mr. Moots had been a member of the local IOOF lodge since 1897 and was awarded a 50-yer emblem, with several other members, in a special ceremony on Sunday, March 16, 1947. Both were also members of the Rebekah lodge and took an active part in its activities. Both orders held their ritualistic obsequies at the late home Tuesday night, where both lay in state and where they may be seen up to noon today.
Both died Monday but at opposite ends of the day. Mr. Moots expired at 2:30 a.m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, four miles northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for one or two days over two weeks. Mrs. Siler is a professional nurse and had nursed him from a week or 10 days in his own home.
Mr. Moots, a retired farmer, had been in declining health for several years. Although it was never fully confirmed it was believed he had a malignancy in the region of the stomach which was fairly well substantiated 24 hours before he expired. His death was assumed to be imminent three or four weeks before his demise but he later improved to such an extent, it was believed he might live for a year or two. He took a turn for the worse, however, Saturday night and early Monday morning slept away.
He is the last of his immediate family to answer the final summons, and is survived by only nieces and nephews, two of whom are Mrs. F. J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece, and Mrs. E.D. Banta.
Mrs. Moots is survived by one sister, Mrs. F. E. Hoerner, and a number of nephews and nieces, who are widely scattered. The only ones living here are Mrs. Roy Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
=====
OBITUARY
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots
Like wheat ready for the harvest, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thomas Moots were garnered to the fathers on Monday, October 31, at the respective ages of 83 years, 8 months and 15 days, and 77 years, 2 moths and 12 days. He expired at 2:30 a.m., when he peacefully slept away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for two weeks and where he was given professional care by Mrs. Siler. The light of her eve was extinguished at 10:55 p.m. the same day at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient over three weeks. Both had been in declining health for several years but he rallied a few weeks ago and it was thought he might live for an indefinite time.
Mr. Moots, son of John and Eliza Ozias Moots, was born on the old home farm, two miles south of Lewisburg in Twin township, and was the youngest of a family of four brothers and three sisters. He received his education in the neighboring little red school house and was proud of the fact that Miss Elma Bittle, who sacrificed her life as a EUB missionary in Sierre Leone, Africa, was one of his teachers.
Mrs. Moots was a daughter of Samuel I. and Mary Ann Disher Bunger and was reared in the old homestead, two and a half miles east of Lewisburg on Route 40. She was one of four sisters and three brothers. Besides the country district school, she attended the old Harrison township high school for one or two years.
Mr. Moots and Miss Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, then pastor of the former Memorial Lutheran church, and on May 4, 1947, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their late home on Main street, Lewisburg, where they lived since 1922.
Their local residence had been the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Moots during their married life lived at only three places, the other two having been on the old home farm with his mother and a farm a short distance east of Lewisburg on Route 40, now the Ross home.
They this traveled side by side for 58 years and all who knew them were agreed they were a most compatible and devoted couple. As Longfellow says in Hiawatha:
"As unto the bow the cord is, so unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Through she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other."
Their long and devoted career ended simultaneously, which is the way they would have ordered it if they had planned it.
Mrs. Moots was never permitted to be a mother and as a consequence she mothered her nieces and nephews, all of whom adored "Aunt Olive".
Mr. Moots was the last of his family to answer the great summons and is survived only by nephews and nieces, only two of whom are local residents, Mrs. E.D. Banta (Lucretia Singer), a niece, and Mrs. F.J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece.
Surviving Mrs. Moots are one sister, Mrs. F.E. Hoerner, and a number of nieces and nephews, who are widely scattered. The only two living in the community are Mrs. Roy C. Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
Mr. and Mrs. Moots were members of the local Lutheran church; she all her life and he by transference from another local church immediately after their marriage. For many years Mrs. Moots was active in the organizations of the church and taught in the primary department of the Sunday School. He ushered for many years and took great pride in the assignment.
Both were members of the Rebekah lodge and each took an active part in its activities until declining health compelled them to relinquish their participation. He was also a member of the local IOOF lodge and had fulfilled almost every post in that organization. In 1947 he was awarded a 50-year jewel, which he prized highly.
(Poem not included)
=====
Olive Moots
Double funeral services were held at Lewisburg for Edward T. Moots, 83, and his wife, Olive, 77, who died within 24 hours of each other.
Mr. Moots died at 2:30 a.m. last Monday at the Forest Siler residence on the Sonom road and Mrs. Moots died at 10 p.m. the same day at the McCoy rest home in Dayton. Both had been ill for some time.
Services were held Thursday at Trinity Lutheran church in Lewisburg with Rev. L.L. Spenny officiating. Burial was in Roselawn cemetery.
The only immediate survivor is Mrs. Moots' sister, Mrs. Julia Hoerner of Lewisburg. He was a member of the IOOF lodge here and both were members of the Lutheran church in Lewisburg.
====
Moots Couple Made Plans For Demise
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots had made complete and detailed plans as to funeral rites and disposal of property in anticipation of their demise, it was disclosed after both expired on Monday of last week within approximately 20 hours of each other. Funeral rites and burial plans had been made and wills had been executed in favor of one another with the surviving spouse to act as the executor of the decedent's estate. Provisions had also been made for alternates in case neither should survive the other or should be unable to fill the designated executorship.
Roy C. Smith, a nephew, was named to execute the will of Mr. Moots if his wife did not survive him or was unable to carry out the provisions of his will, and G. M. Kumler, a brother-in-law, was designated as the alternate in the will of Mrs. Moots. As the two estates can be executed simultaneously, Mr. Kumler declined the appointment in favor of Mr. Smith, who will execute both wills.
The double funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran church, of which both were long-time members, and were attended by a large concourse of relatives and friend. The final rites were in charge of the Rev. L. L. Spenny, their pastor, who delivered a very appropriate sermon for the occasion.
Double funeral and burial services were the decedents died natural deaths, are unusual in the necrology annals of this community. [56432]
Obituary Online notes for Edward Thomas (Spouse 1)
Mr. And Mrs. E.T. Moots Die
Monday; Double Rites Today
Double funeral Rites for rites for Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots, a venerable Lewisburg couple, will be held at 2:30 this Thursday afternoon from Trinity Lutheran church, of which both had been members for many years. The services will be conducted by their pastor, the Rev. L.L. Spenny, and will be followed by burial in Roselawn cemetery on the lot were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Moots repose.
Mrs. Moots succumbed around 11 o'clock Monday night at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient a little over three weeks. She had suffered for several years from a pronounced attack of arthritis and also from a mental illness that at times superinduced almost mental frustration.
Mr. Moots was 83 years last February and Mrs. Moots was two months past 77. Their deaths occurring on the same day was unusual in the necrology history of this community.
Mr. Moots and the former Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Bunger, three miles ease of here on Route 40, by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, pastor at that time of the former Memorial Lutheran church. They observed their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 4, 1947, at their home, 317 North Main street, where they had lived since 1922.
Mr. Moots had been a member of the local IOOF lodge since 1897 and was awarded a 50-yer emblem, with several other members, in a special ceremony on Sunday, March 16, 1947. Both were also members of the Rebekah lodge and took an active part in its activities. Both orders held their ritualistic obsequies at the late home Tuesday night, where both lay in state and where they may be seen up to noon today.
Both died Monday but at opposite ends of the day. Mr. Moots expired at 2:30 a.m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, four miles northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for one or two days over two weeks. Mrs. Siler is a professional nurse and had nursed him from a week or 10 days in his own home.
Mr. Moots, a retired farmer, had been in declining health for several years. Although it was never fully confirmed it was believed he had a malignancy in the region of the stomach which was fairly well substantiated 24 hours before he expired. His death was assumed to be imminent three or four weeks before his demise but he later improved to such an extent, it was believed he might live for a year or two. He took a turn for the worse, however, Saturday night and early Monday morning slept away.
He is the last of his immediate family to answer the final summons, and is survived by only nieces and nephews, two of whom are Mrs. F. J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece, and Mrs. E.D. Banta.
Mrs. Moots is survived by one sister, Mrs. F. E. Hoerner, and a number of nephews and nieces, who are widely scattered. The only ones living here are Mrs. Roy Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
=====
OBITUARY
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots
Like wheat ready for the harvest, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thomas Moots were garnered to the fathers on Monday, October 31, at the respective ages of 83 years, 8 months and 15 days, and 77 years, 2 moths and 12 days. He expired at 2:30 a.m., when he peacefully slept away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for two weeks and where he was given professional care by Mrs. Siler. The light of her eve was extinguished at 10:55 p.m. the same day at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient over three weeks. Both had been in declining health for several years but he rallied a few weeks ago and it was thought he might live for an indefinite time.
Mr. Moots, son of John and Eliza Ozias Moots, was born on the old home farm, two miles south of Lewisburg in Twin township, and was the youngest of a family of four brothers and three sisters. He received his education in the neighboring little red school house and was proud of the fact that Miss Elma Bittle, who sacrificed her life as a EUB missionary in Sierre Leone, Africa, was one of his teachers.
Mrs. Moots was a daughter of Samuel I. and Mary Ann Disher Bunger and was reared in the old homestead, two and a half miles east of Lewisburg on Route 40. She was one of four sisters and three brothers. Besides the country district school, she attended the old Harrison township high school for one or two years.
Mr. Moots and Miss Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, then pastor of the former Memorial Lutheran church, and on May 4, 1947, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their late home on Main street, Lewisburg, where they lived since 1922.
Their local residence had been the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Moots during their married life lived at only three places, the other two having been on the old home farm with his mother and a farm a short distance east of Lewisburg on Route 40, now the Ross home.
They this traveled side by side for 58 years and all who knew them were agreed they were a most compatible and devoted couple. As Longfellow says in Hiawatha:
"As unto the bow the cord is, so unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Through she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other."
Their long and devoted career ended simultaneously, which is the way they would have ordered it if they had planned it.
Mrs. Moots was never permitted to be a mother and as a consequence she mothered her nieces and nephews, all of whom adored "Aunt Olive".
Mr. Moots was the last of his family to answer the great summons and is survived only by nephews and nieces, only two of whom are local residents, Mrs. E.D. Banta (Lucretia Singer), a niece, and Mrs. F.J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece.
Surviving Mrs. Moots are one sister, Mrs. F.E. Hoerner, and a number of nieces and nephews, who are widely scattered. The only two living in the community are Mrs. Roy C. Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
Mr. and Mrs. Moots were members of the local Lutheran church; she all her life and he by transference from another local church immediately after their marriage. For many years Mrs. Moots was active in the organizations of the church and taught in the primary department of the Sunday School. He ushered for many years and took great pride in the assignment.
Both were members of the Rebekah lodge and each took an active part in its activities until declining health compelled them to relinquish their participation. He was also a member of the local IOOF lodge and had fulfilled almost every post in that organization. In 1947 he was awarded a 50-year jewel, which he prized highly.
(Poem not included)
=====
Olive Moots
Double funeral services were held at Lewisburg for Edward T. Moots, 83, and his wife, Olive, 77, who died within 24 hours of each other.
Mr. Moots died at 2:30 a.m. last Monday at the Forest Siler residence on the Sonom road and Mrs. Moots died at 10 p.m. the same day at the McCoy rest home in Dayton. Both had been ill for some time.
Services were held Thursday at Trinity Lutheran church in Lewisburg with Rev. L.L. Spenny officiating. Burial was in Roselawn cemetery.
The only immediate survivor is Mrs. Moots' sister, Mrs. Julia Hoerner of Lewisburg. He was a member of the IOOF lodge here and both were members of the Lutheran church in Lewisburg.
====
Moots Couple Made Plans For Demise
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots had made complete and detailed plans as to funeral rites and disposal of property in anticipation of their demise, it was disclosed after both expired on Monday of last week within approximately 20 hours of each other. Funeral rites and burial plans had been made and wills had been executed in favor of one another with the surviving spouse to act as the executor of the decedent's estate. Provisions had also been made for alternates in case neither should survive the other or should be unable to fill the designated executorship.
Roy C. Smith, a nephew, was named to execute the will of Mr. Moots if his wife did not survive him or was unable to carry out the provisions of his will, and G. M. Kumler, a brother-in-law, was designated as the alternate in the will of Mrs. Moots. As the two estates can be executed simultaneously, Mr. Kumler declined the appointment in favor of Mr. Smith, who will execute both wills.
The double funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran church, of which both were long-time members, and were attended by a large concourse of relatives and friend. The final rites were in charge of the Rev. L. L. Spenny, their pastor, who delivered a very appropriate sermon for the occasion.
Double funeral and burial services were the decedents died natural deaths, are unusual in the necrology annals of this community. [56431]
Monday; Double Rites Today
Double funeral Rites for rites for Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots, a venerable Lewisburg couple, will be held at 2:30 this Thursday afternoon from Trinity Lutheran church, of which both had been members for many years. The services will be conducted by their pastor, the Rev. L.L. Spenny, and will be followed by burial in Roselawn cemetery on the lot were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Moots repose.
Mrs. Moots succumbed around 11 o'clock Monday night at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient a little over three weeks. She had suffered for several years from a pronounced attack of arthritis and also from a mental illness that at times superinduced almost mental frustration.
Mr. Moots was 83 years last February and Mrs. Moots was two months past 77. Their deaths occurring on the same day was unusual in the necrology history of this community.
Mr. Moots and the former Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Bunger, three miles ease of here on Route 40, by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, pastor at that time of the former Memorial Lutheran church. They observed their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 4, 1947, at their home, 317 North Main street, where they had lived since 1922.
Mr. Moots had been a member of the local IOOF lodge since 1897 and was awarded a 50-yer emblem, with several other members, in a special ceremony on Sunday, March 16, 1947. Both were also members of the Rebekah lodge and took an active part in its activities. Both orders held their ritualistic obsequies at the late home Tuesday night, where both lay in state and where they may be seen up to noon today.
Both died Monday but at opposite ends of the day. Mr. Moots expired at 2:30 a.m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, four miles northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for one or two days over two weeks. Mrs. Siler is a professional nurse and had nursed him from a week or 10 days in his own home.
Mr. Moots, a retired farmer, had been in declining health for several years. Although it was never fully confirmed it was believed he had a malignancy in the region of the stomach which was fairly well substantiated 24 hours before he expired. His death was assumed to be imminent three or four weeks before his demise but he later improved to such an extent, it was believed he might live for a year or two. He took a turn for the worse, however, Saturday night and early Monday morning slept away.
He is the last of his immediate family to answer the final summons, and is survived by only nieces and nephews, two of whom are Mrs. F. J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece, and Mrs. E.D. Banta.
Mrs. Moots is survived by one sister, Mrs. F. E. Hoerner, and a number of nephews and nieces, who are widely scattered. The only ones living here are Mrs. Roy Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
=====
OBITUARY
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots
Like wheat ready for the harvest, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thomas Moots were garnered to the fathers on Monday, October 31, at the respective ages of 83 years, 8 months and 15 days, and 77 years, 2 moths and 12 days. He expired at 2:30 a.m., when he peacefully slept away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Siler, northwest of Lewisburg, where he had been a resident for two weeks and where he was given professional care by Mrs. Siler. The light of her eve was extinguished at 10:55 p.m. the same day at the McCoy Nursing home in Dayton where she had been a patient over three weeks. Both had been in declining health for several years but he rallied a few weeks ago and it was thought he might live for an indefinite time.
Mr. Moots, son of John and Eliza Ozias Moots, was born on the old home farm, two miles south of Lewisburg in Twin township, and was the youngest of a family of four brothers and three sisters. He received his education in the neighboring little red school house and was proud of the fact that Miss Elma Bittle, who sacrificed her life as a EUB missionary in Sierre Leone, Africa, was one of his teachers.
Mrs. Moots was a daughter of Samuel I. and Mary Ann Disher Bunger and was reared in the old homestead, two and a half miles east of Lewisburg on Route 40. She was one of four sisters and three brothers. Besides the country district school, she attended the old Harrison township high school for one or two years.
Mr. Moots and Miss Olive Bunger were married May 5, 1897, at the home of her parents by the late Rev. T.A. Estell, then pastor of the former Memorial Lutheran church, and on May 4, 1947, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their late home on Main street, Lewisburg, where they lived since 1922.
Their local residence had been the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Moots during their married life lived at only three places, the other two having been on the old home farm with his mother and a farm a short distance east of Lewisburg on Route 40, now the Ross home.
They this traveled side by side for 58 years and all who knew them were agreed they were a most compatible and devoted couple. As Longfellow says in Hiawatha:
"As unto the bow the cord is, so unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Through she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other."
Their long and devoted career ended simultaneously, which is the way they would have ordered it if they had planned it.
Mrs. Moots was never permitted to be a mother and as a consequence she mothered her nieces and nephews, all of whom adored "Aunt Olive".
Mr. Moots was the last of his family to answer the great summons and is survived only by nephews and nieces, only two of whom are local residents, Mrs. E.D. Banta (Lucretia Singer), a niece, and Mrs. F.J. Markey (Hazel Pundt), who is a grand niece.
Surviving Mrs. Moots are one sister, Mrs. F.E. Hoerner, and a number of nieces and nephews, who are widely scattered. The only two living in the community are Mrs. Roy C. Smith and Henry M. Kumler.
Mr. and Mrs. Moots were members of the local Lutheran church; she all her life and he by transference from another local church immediately after their marriage. For many years Mrs. Moots was active in the organizations of the church and taught in the primary department of the Sunday School. He ushered for many years and took great pride in the assignment.
Both were members of the Rebekah lodge and each took an active part in its activities until declining health compelled them to relinquish their participation. He was also a member of the local IOOF lodge and had fulfilled almost every post in that organization. In 1947 he was awarded a 50-year jewel, which he prized highly.
(Poem not included)
=====
Olive Moots
Double funeral services were held at Lewisburg for Edward T. Moots, 83, and his wife, Olive, 77, who died within 24 hours of each other.
Mr. Moots died at 2:30 a.m. last Monday at the Forest Siler residence on the Sonom road and Mrs. Moots died at 10 p.m. the same day at the McCoy rest home in Dayton. Both had been ill for some time.
Services were held Thursday at Trinity Lutheran church in Lewisburg with Rev. L.L. Spenny officiating. Burial was in Roselawn cemetery.
The only immediate survivor is Mrs. Moots' sister, Mrs. Julia Hoerner of Lewisburg. He was a member of the IOOF lodge here and both were members of the Lutheran church in Lewisburg.
====
Moots Couple Made Plans For Demise
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Moots had made complete and detailed plans as to funeral rites and disposal of property in anticipation of their demise, it was disclosed after both expired on Monday of last week within approximately 20 hours of each other. Funeral rites and burial plans had been made and wills had been executed in favor of one another with the surviving spouse to act as the executor of the decedent's estate. Provisions had also been made for alternates in case neither should survive the other or should be unable to fill the designated executorship.
Roy C. Smith, a nephew, was named to execute the will of Mr. Moots if his wife did not survive him or was unable to carry out the provisions of his will, and G. M. Kumler, a brother-in-law, was designated as the alternate in the will of Mrs. Moots. As the two estates can be executed simultaneously, Mr. Kumler declined the appointment in favor of Mr. Smith, who will execute both wills.
The double funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran church, of which both were long-time members, and were attended by a large concourse of relatives and friend. The final rites were in charge of the Rev. L. L. Spenny, their pastor, who delivered a very appropriate sermon for the occasion.
Double funeral and burial services were the decedents died natural deaths, are unusual in the necrology annals of this community. [56431]