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- Obit: Excerpts (full text in Garber file): Washington (IL) Post
Emanuel Garber, Sr., is dead. Quietly he sank to sleep Thursday noon, at 12:25 o’clock, surrounded by relatives and friends. Mr. Garber had been complaining all winter and about the first of the year he had an attack of the grip and had been poorly ever since. At times his family had thought he was getting better. A week before his death he seemed to take more nourishment and to grow stronger, but it was only the beginning of the end. Wednesday evening he commenced sinking and from then until the last gradually sank to sleep.....Mr. Garber was known and loved by nearly everybody in this community, and far beyond. He was one of God’s noblemen...He was a veterinary surgeon by profession but he seemed to use his labors only as a cloak to accommodate others and relive the poor, suffering dumb bruts. He would travel any distance in all kinds of weather and all he asked for his services was nothing or a mere pittance. In all his business dealings he was honorable and just and was never known to do a wrongful act knowingly. The world is better for his having lived. he has left behind him no accumulations of gold but there will ever remain the kindly gentle life he lived, and few with whom he ever came in contact but were made better and happier by having met him. No man in any community was ever more highly respected than was Mr. Garber....Mr. Garber was a consistent member of the Mennonite church and always took an active interest in working in the vineyard of the Lord.
Emanuel and his wife lived on a farm six miles east of Pekin. Here their ten children were born. In the spring of 1875 they moved to a farm near Washington.
“Emanuel was a very respected man in his community. It is said that he was very good at doctoring animals and considered a veterinarian. My great grandfather is Samuel, born 1859. He migrated to Brawley, Imperial Co. Calif. abt. 1903. He owned the largest dry cleaning business in Imperial County. He joined the Stahl Brothers in their business ventures. See Pioneers of Imperial Co. He married Amelia Ellen Stormer and had five children: Arthur, Rudolph, Fannie, Minnie Amelia and Hulda. Minnie Amelia married Henry A. Stahl in 1908. They, with the Stahl brothers, farmed the homesteaded land and operated the largest dry goods store in Brawley. Later the store was bought out by J. C Pennys. Henry and Minnie also farmed a 40 acre walnut ranch in Northridge, L.A county, Calif. In his elder years, Samuel lived with his daughter, Minnie, on the walnut ranch and then with his son Rudolph. He died Feb. 1940. Burial sight is unknown; he may have been cremated. His wife, Amelia Ellen Stormer Garber is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Brawley, Calif. The name on the stone is misspelled, it says "Stromer". Wife of Samuel Garber is on the top. Amelia's brother, David Stormer, is buried next to her. Imperial county in the early 1900's was a very harsh climate with day time temperatures reaching beyond 110 degrees in the summer months. The Colorado River over flowed its banks causing major damage to crops and fields. This was rectified when the Hoover Dam was built. These were very strong people. I am proud to have them in my family tree.” [1, 4, 5]
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1825 - 1901 (75 years)
