E.B. SHAW BURIED WITH FUNERAL AT FAMILY HOME
Impressive home funeral services were held this morning at 10:30 o'clock for Elijah Burbank Shaw, who died Sunday morning, at the residence, 208 Buell avenue.
The home was filled with friends who came to pay their respects to this well known resident, who for more than half a century had been prominent in business and church circles in Joliet.
Dr. Charles Dutton Jacobs, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Shaw was an elder for forty years, officiated. Simplicity marked the service. Miss Frances DeVine opened and closed it with the hymns "Abide with me" and "Softly Falls the Light of Day".
Dr. Jacobs read a passage of appropriate scripture and offered prayer.
The floral offerings were beautiful and the flower-ladened casket was carried by Louis Hyde, A.S. Leckie, Henry Leach, George M. Campbell, W.E. Davison and Colonel Fred Bennitt. Burial was in the family lot in Oakwood cemetery.
E.B. SHAW BURIED WITH FUNERAL AT FAMILY HOME
Impressive home funeral services were held this morning at 10:30 o'clock for Elijah Burbank Shaw, who died Sunday morning, at the residence, 208 Buell avenue.
The home was filled with friends who came to pay their respects to this well known resident, who for more than half a century had been prominent in business and church circles in Joliet.
Dr. Charles Dutton Jacobs, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Shaw was an elder for forty years, officiated. Simplicity marked the service. Miss Frances DeVine opened and closed it with the hymns "Abide with me" and "Softly Falls the Light of Day".
Dr. Jacobs read a passage of appropriate scripture and offered prayer.
The floral offerings were beautiful and the flower-ladened casket was carried by Louis Hyde, A.S. Leckie, Henry Leach, George M. Campbell, W.E. Davison and Colonel Fred Bennitt. Burial was in the family lot in Oakwood cemetery.
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