(From last week's Protection Post.)Wednesday afternoon the community was shocked to receive the report that Dan Tobias had died at a Wichita hospital at 1:30 p.m., that afternoon.
Mr. Tobias had been ill only since Monday afternoon. On that day as he was working in the field he became suddenly violently ill. He made his way to the house and a physician was summoned. Mr. Tobias' illness was diagnosed as appendicitis and on Tuesday, as he gradually but rapidly grew worse, he was rushed by motor car to the hospital at Wichita, arriving there Tuesday afternoon. He was so critically ill at the time that he arrived at Wichita that surgeons could not operate. Mr. Tobias gradually became more critically ill as time passed, and death relieved his intense suffering at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
Wichita surgeons stated that Mr. Tobias died from an infected appendix and that in all probability the organ had ruptured before he left the field Monday, and by the time he was able to reach Wichita, he was beyond human skill to aid.
Mr. Tobias was one of Protection's successful young farmers. He had operated his own and his mother's farms north of Protection since his boyhood and had been very successful in their management. He was in the prime of life, being at the turn of 30 years of age, and the future held for him and his family a great deal of promise, and his untimely death comes as a shock to friends and relatives.
The body arrived in Protection on Thursday's afternoon train, accompanied by Mrs. Tobias, who had been at his bedside in Wichita. The funeral services were held from the Church of Christ in Protection on Friday afternoon at 2:30 with Elder L. O. Byerly, local pastor, preaching the funeral sermon, and interment was in the family lot in the Protection cemetery.
He leaves a young wife and three small children, an aged mother and several sisters, besides many other relatives and hosts of friends to mourn his loss.
Mr. Tobias was scrupulously honest and upright in his business dealings, a hard worker and foremost in his community in public spirit and progress with his farming methods and the handling of his stock.
His loss will bear grievously on his family and mother and will be one from which his hosts of friends will be long recovering. Steady and reliable, the entire community mourns the passing of a young man of such promise as Mr. Tobias.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Frederick, who live in Cheney, Kans., were in this county last week coming to attend the funeral of Dan Tobias. Dan was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Frederick.
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