Gilbert Alvord McClintic (1917) ALTERNATE

DAY, HENDERSON, MCCLINTIC

Posted By: Kathi Kuhl
Date: 3/12/2025 at 11:44:18

Westpoint News
West Point, Nebraska
Friday, February 2, 1917
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FINAL SUMMONS

The uncompromising nature of the “Grim Reaper” in choosing those who must obey his call was never more strikingly illustrated than in his summons to G. A. McClintic on Friday morning, January 26. Mr. McClintic was first taken ill with the grippe on the Friday evening previous to his death. His condition gave no apparent cause for apprehension and on the following Wednesday he considered himself well on the way to recovery. During the day Wednesday, however, he became much worse, and a physician was called, who pronounced it a case of acute pneumonia. The patient, though possessed of a strong vitality and a rugged constitution, failed to rally and at Friday morning at 4 p.m. past peacefully to the ‘great beyond.’

Appreciative of his sterling attributes of character, Mr. McClintic leaves many friends to mourn his untimely departure from this life in the vigor of his manhood. While entertaining extremely radical views on many subjects, his open and frank expression of his ideas and the evident courage of his convictions won for him the high respect and sincere regard of those who knew him.

Employed in the Wostoupal Marble Works during his seven years residence here, he was one of the most expert marble cutters in this part of the state. He was also a mechanic of no mean skill and ability and was an expert electrician. Only a few days before the end, he was formulating plans for branching out in the latter line of business and would have met an undoubted success. Since coming to West Point, he had acquired and paid for his home and had made a place for himself as one of the substantial citizens of the community. Those same traits of character which dominated his childhood, cheerfulness, ambition, and eagerness, to be of service to others, remained with him in his later life and made for him many friends. His loss will be keenly felt throughout the community.

Gilbert Alvord McClintic was born at Sommerset, Iowa, Jan. 31, 1873. In infancy he removed with his parents to Winterset, Iowa, where most of his early life was passed. On March 20, 1900, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Henderson of Monmouth, Ill. After some years residence in Illinois and Colorado they came to West Point in 1909, which has since been their home. Of this union, five children were born, four daughters and one son, all of whom survive to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father. Also surviving are his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. McClintic, of Winterset, Iowa, two brothers, Rex of Winterset, and D. E. of Sioux Falls S.D., and two sisters, Mildred, a teacher in the public schools of Denver, and Mrs. C. G. Day of Paso Robles, Calif.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. from the residence, Rev. W. H. Atcheson officiating. Interment in Mount Hope cemetery. The Republican expresses sympathy to the bereaved family.