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Show REESE HOWELL I BURIED THIS : MORNING Simple and impressive as his life wore the funeral and burial services of the late Reese Howell, many friends attending the services at the home, 234i Adams avenue, at 11 0 clock this morning and a large concourse con-course followed the hearse to the Ogden Og-den cemetery where the body of the highly respected citizen was laid to ic- final rest. The home was altogether too small to accommodate the many people who assembled to pay tribute of respect. An unostentatious funeral was in keeping with his life and all who attended at-tended realized that the greatest honor to be given him was to simplify simpli-fy the ceremonies. The Rev Willi im W Fleetwood, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd Conducted brief services and the Royal Arcanum of the Rocky Mountain Council No. 037, gave the burial ritual at the grave Air. Howell had been a member of the Arcanum for the past twenty years and twenty-eight of the order today, wearing the insignia, took pan In the last sad rites Judge Harris, with other members of the Ogden Bar association, attended attend-ed and followed the remains to the cemetery The county clerks office was closed for the occasion and the entire force attended the funeral In n body. There were also representatives representa-tives from other departments of the I county courthouse and many business men of the city were at the funeral to I pay their last respects to their esteemed es-teemed co-worker in the business uplift up-lift ot Ogden The pall bearers were lifelong, friends and business associates of Reese Howell, having known him for! the past twenty-five years In the business actitloa of the city. They1 were: J. S. Carver. Chris Flygare, I Ralph Hoag. Robert Moves. J. H. Thomas lohn Cullcy. J, S Campbell and Thomas Burt. The casket was banked with beautiful beau-tiful flora offerings, sent to the bier by friends and relatives, among them being the choicest flowers of love and respect The throng assembled fori the occasion was permitted to view I the remains before the services opened op-ened and during the entire forenoon the home was filled with friends who took a last farewell. It is said of Reese Howell that his life was one of industry and hurry, he scarcely taking time to look after his personal health and welfare. His i slogan through life was honesty, ' straightforwardness and frugality. . and yet he never was so busy that he could not exercise the altruistic char acteristics of his nature and lend a helping hand He was devoted to bis home and family and his business a'l his years and there neer was a time when he was not at his post of duty Reese Howell was a man of his own ; fairs, attending to them strictly and expecting at all times that other people peo-ple wers doing the same thing. It was Mr Howell's request that funeral services for him he as simple and plain as had been his life and Itbst there be no cessation of business I because of his death. He desired to be laid to his final rest in the same mat-ter-of-fart way, free from pomp and 'show as he had lived his life of more man a half century, and his family ! undertook to carry out his wishes Thy Brother Shall Rise Again Rev William W. Fleetwood, speaking speak-ing on part of the 23d verse of the 11th chapter of the gospel of St John. Thy brother shall rise again " said . "Tunes without number since that memorable day when Jesus Christ the Lord ol life spake those words to the sorrowing sisters as he stood by the tomb of his friend Lazarus, they have brought to those who sorrow the comfort of a reasonable religious I and boh hope and have guided their feet into the ways of peace "The most blessed, the most Godlike God-like thing that you and 1 know anything any-thing about in our lives in the world is love the love that binds husband and wife, father and child, brother and sister, together in the great bonds j of the family. Without it the world would be a dreary place, life would lose all its greatest Joys and blessings bless-ings to most of us. Even in this busy Commercial, material age in which we live, even In spite of the multitudinous multitudi-nous activities that claim our time land our attention and our thought day after day and year after year, we still have time In the midst of these activities to form these associations and to cultivate this great bond that binds us together in the home, or in society, or In the church, or In fra- tcrnal nrnn 11 i 7a I i nnR and then hnu often docs It happen that just as this wondrous flower of love comes to maturity ma-turity Just after It has bee-n brought to its fullness by years of associa-' associa-' tion and companionship the bearing ol burdens together, the sharing of joys with one another that these ties are snapped asunder, sometimes very ruthlessly we think Sometimes with little or no warning we find our friend or our loved oue gone, and we find ourselves standing face to face with the greatest enigma of human hu-man existence thai mysterious eent that we call death and even alter we have convinced ourselves of the reasonableness rea-sonableness of immortality. even when we have brought to our minds an answer an-swer in the affirmative to that old question If a man die, shall he live again0 Even after we are able to say the words of our creed, not only with our Hps but from the very depths of our hearts. I believe in the resurrection resur-rection of the dead and the life of the world to come.' even then these separations, sepa-rations, the breaking asunder of these bonds, brings pain and sorrow and anguish to our hearts, because we feel that separation of the seen from the I unseen, the physical from the spiritual, spirit-ual, comes down before our very eyes i and shuts out the vision of what lies beyond the grave and the gate ol j death "It is not strange that ve ir in our weak human way, to penetrate that tremendous mystery and form mental concepts of that countrv from whose boiirne no traveler has e'er returned, re-turned, to think of our loved ones who have passed beyond the grave and the sale of death. And yet God in his wisdom has limited our under-Btandlng under-Btandlng ol these things, and yet he has. in the person of Jesus Christ, given to us the only word we need for our comfort, our hope, our assurance, and that is in the continuance of our personality, Thy brother shall rise again.' not a being with changed personality, but the same man. thei same one whom we loved, the same one who is bound to us with those lies of affection and love, that this one shall be known and loved by us in the world to come. "it is impossible for us to reconcile recon-cile any belief we may have in the goodness and loving kindness of God I with any other conception of immortality, immor-tality, because it is pot possible for us to believe that God, who binds up the broken hearted, who comforts the J Borrowing, could have organized into life an incurable sorrow, for after all the keenest pnng that comes to your bean or mind is that occasioned by Reparation, and the most dreadful sorrow sor-row that can come to any man is that thought ot love sundered by hopeless death. And the only gate, the only pathway out ol" that awful labvrlnth is In that blessed assurance of Jesus Christ that love, because it 16 eternal in its nature, must have an eternal fruition. ' Thy brother shall rise again ' Thy same one who has been bound to you by those blessed ties of friendship and relationship in this world shall be united with you again In the life to come. Those same ties that have I been so dear and so real and so won-I won-I derful to us here shall be even greater great-er there, where love, unhampered by the baeer things of life shall !i;ih its eternal fruition It seems to me that is the onh thought that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory Not the mere fact of immortality, im-mortality, not the mere intellectual assurance that if a man tile he shall live again, but the thought that It is to be the same man. that we are to again' resume those ties and relationships relation-ships that bound us together here And it is with that faith in our hearts and that blessed assurance that we have come here today to pay our last tribute lo the memory of this clear friend and companion. "There are lives thai need no eulogy, eu-logy, there are lives that speak for themselves better than others could speak for them, and It is to the memory mem-ory of such a life that we are paying pay-ing our tribute today not in words but in the deepest feelings of our hearts A man who was a devoted husband, a tender, loving father one who loved his home so that when the family came to arrange for having these services today they could think of having it in no other place but in the home that was so dar to him, the home where his real life was lived, and It is only those who knew him In his home life who knew the real Reese Howell. '.May God comfort and bless his lamily today, and as we consign his body to its last resting place, may We do so with th- comfort and blessed bless-ed assurance in our hearts tbat he nhnll iIsp nk'iiln "May he rest in peace and may light perpetual Bhlne upon him "Amen." Congressman Joseph Howell, brot Iter It-er of the deceased, his sons Luther and Joseph and Mrs Howell were in attendance at the services, the con gressman having arrived in th city from Washington early this morning other relatives from outside dis tricts who attended ihe funeral were. .Mrs Margaret E Perkins, sister of Mrs. Howell, of Boise, Ma : R IT Jones, a nephew of Mr Howell. E 1! Jones of Brlgham City and Lewis T I annon of Salt Lake. ke Howell was born in 1848 B1 Council Blurts. Ia.. and in lS.'l cani with his mother to Utah crossing the plaintj with an ox team, hi father having died at what was then winter quarters, now Council Bluffs. Ia After coming to Utah. Mr Howell lived with his mother at Brigham City and Wellsville. Cache county, and bore the responsibility of looking .if ter his widowed mother and her ehll drcn He attended the district schools of that period and rounded out his education by a term at the then Des eret university He wau reared in the hard school of experience and from his earliest youth WU accustomed accustom-ed to the most unremitting Industr;. If ter bis marriage be removed to Kel J ton. L'tah. where he was tlrst engaged in the freighting business in Utah and Idaho and subsequently In th" mei'-cantils mei'-cantils business For n number of years he conducted a store at Kei-'on, Kei-'on, but finally his health could no longer stand the strain of the lile ihero on the desert and he moved to Ogden with his family in 1882, having purchased r,.;,i . ,, r prior to bis coming and has ever since resided here. Shortly after hi coming to O--den he became associated with H. C Tavey in the mercantile business, un dor the name of Tavey & Howell H subsequently purchased Ihf partner.-. I interest and conducted the business under his own name until he SBSOClat-led SBSOClat-led with himself his son. William C Howell, and the firm has since been I known by the name of Reese Howell A Sons. Within the last two years two corporations, cor-porations, ihe Reese Howell company and the Howell Investment compan were organised for the purpose ot I carrying on his various business in-I in-I CSresiS, Mr Howell being the presi-I presi-I dent of cac h. in 1882 be commenced the building i i of the Broom annex and ha- sine.' then butll the Reese Howell block on Twenty fifth street and other build-Ings build-Ings in various parts of the city. He belonged to no orgnnizai Ions except the Royal Arcanum, and vrhen lie vvfR away from his business ho always al-ways spent his time at bis home. He was most modest and unassuming in I hia life, but no one listened more at-I at-I tentlvely to the crj Of distress than did he, nor was more ready to glv his aid and assistance to those who ! were In need He was so unostenta-: unostenta-: tious in his giving that few knew of jit. but many in Ogden and elsewhere 1 have been the recipients of his chart-I chart-I ty. He was most loyal to Ogden's interests inter-ests and was always ready to lend his I aid to any proposal that meant Its i progress. He had bellel In ii from the ( first and he was always hopeful for its future. Though he helped them all. he was not a member of any particular Church, and his religion consisted In dolus good amongst his fe llow men. lie was respected and esteemed by his business associates and best loved lov-ed by the poor It can be truly said of him that if every one who has been a recipient of his benevolence were to drop a flower on his tomb he would sleep among a wilderness of flowers. He was deeply loved by his employes 1 he following written by an employe, feelingly expresses the sentiment in the hearts of all. when she says that Mr. Howell in his life has fulfilled this prayer Let me so live I hat When the final summons comes. I may stand una-bashed una-bashed In bis r.reat Presence and ten tifj that I have never failed to speak kindly to the distressed, that I have loved truth, beauty and little children, that I have dealt gently with the frailties frail-ties of my brothers, that I have done in all things unto men as I would thev Should do unto me " Mr Howell was married in 1869 to Jennie Chaplow Four children were born to them. William C. May Jose-pl Jose-pl 3 James Libert and Martha Williams Wil-liams Both daughters died in child hood, but he Is survived by his wife and sons, one brother, Congressman loseph Howell, and one sister, Mr Ann H Burt of Brigham City, also two little granddaughters, the children chil-dren of Judge J A Howell, Jennie ' Margaret. J years old, and another little girl not yet named, about two months old |