_Selah (Peter) CHAMBERLAIN _
_Charles Edward CHAMBERLAIN _|
| |_Phoebe (Sarah) HENDERSON __
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|--Robert Merritt CHAMBERLAIN
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| _Robert Hamilton BIGGS _____
|_Martha Maria BIGGS _________|
|_Martha Ann YOUNG __________
!See obituary, of son Robert for more information.
!SOURCE:
MRS. EDNA LEE TAYLOR
RR 1, BOX 129
WOODSTON, KANSAS 67675
! DEATH SUMMONS R M CHAMBERLAIN
! Heart failur causes death Sunday afternoon while on way to Great Falls.
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The people of this community were shocked Sunday afternoon to learn of the
unexpected death from heart failure about 1:30 PM of Robert M Chamberlain on
the road to Great Falls and only a few miles from that city, where he was being
taken by his family for medical treatment after having had a couple of heart
attacks the previous day.
!Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon from the Denton Methodist
church with the Rev C W Orner of Lewistown, an old freind of the deceased,
officiating. Western Star Lodge No 104 A F & M had charge of the graveside
services and the burial was made by the Croxford Mortuary of Great Falls. Two
hymns, "Take Time To Be Holy" and Abide With Me," were sung by a male quartette
composed of P H Hoekstra, Charles Niswanger, B K Behm and L T Cole, with Mrs.
Charles Niswanger accompanying at the piano. The floral tributes were many and
beautiful. Interment was made in Hillcrest cemetery.
!So many people came to pay their last respects to the memory of the deceased
that many could not find room in the church during the service and were
compelled to remain outside.
!Pallbearers were O T Coffman, Henry Ronish, Nolan Barber, Arno Green, L G Ott,
and Perry Walker.
!Robert Merritt Chamberlain, son of Charles and Maria Chamberlain, was born at
Stockton, Kansas, on December 4, 1883. He attended grade school and high
school at Stockton and later went to Manhattan, Kansas, to the State College
for three years.
!As a young man, he came to Montana and homesteaded on the Arrow Creek bench in
1906. In 1911 he returned to Stockton and married Bertha Wyatt of that place
and brought her here as his bride.
!During the next few years he taught school in Coffee Creek, Denton, and
Wennett, and also attended Montana State University at Missoula. In 1925 he
returned to the ranch home north of Denton where the family was living at the
time of his death, having moved out from their home in town for the summer.
!Three children, a daughter, Marjorie, and twin sons, Richard and Robert,
blessed their home.
!Mr. Chamberlain was a charter member of the Presbyterian church in Coffee
Creek and served as elder for many years. In 1928, he attended the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a delegate from his
church. It was there that he first met the Rev Orner.
!Mr. Chamberlain, was active in Boy Scout work and had active troops at
Coffee Creek and Winnett while residing at those places.
!When the family moved to Denton, to send their sons to school, he became a
member of the local Methodist congregation. He was a member of the local
Masonic lodge, and was also a member of the Odd Fellows during the time that
Order had a lodge at Coffee Creek.
!The survivors, include the wife, Bertha, a daughter, Mrs. P DeWinter, of
Inglewood, Calif, and the sons, Richard and Robert, of Denton, three
grandchildren, Wendall, Stanley, and Roger DeWinter, two sisters, Mrs. Roy
Snyder and Mrs. John Reed of Stockton, Kans, two brothers, Edward H and Frank
Chamberlain of Eagle Point, Oregon.
!Robert Chamberlain was a devoted husband and father and a friend of all who
knew him. He was never too busy to help a neighbor or anyone in distress or
need. His Christian influence was felt in every activity of which he was a
part. His pupils and his scouts remember and bear in their lives the impact of
his Christian personality.
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Poem by William Cullen Bryant:
! So live, that when thy summons comes to join
! The innumerable caravan that moves
! To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
! His chamber in the silent halls of death,
! Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night
! Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
! By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
! Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him
! And lies down to pleasant dreams.
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!Editor's Note -- We feel a deep, personal loss in this life in the passing of
Robert M Chamberlain, for he was numbered among the best friends that we ever
had.
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|_Della Elizabeth GATONS _|
|_Minnie F. MCCONNELL ___
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_Jacob Leroy MILLER _|
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