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Subject: [NESHERID] Obit: William Constant Sandoz
Date: 12 Sep 2006 13:17:30 -0600

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Surnames: Sandoz, Pochon
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From: The Rushville Standard, Friday, 21 May 1926
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William Sandoz
Last Saturday, May 15, 1926, Sheridan County, and the State of Nebraska, lost one of its most valuable and useful citizens, when death claimed William Sandoz of Running Water Precinct. William Constant Sandoz was born in Canton Neuchatel, Switzerland, on Oct. 10, 1861, and came to this county in 1888, locating on a homestead on the Niobrara River, which he later relinquished and took another homestead through which flows the beautiful Box Butte Creek and on which Box Butte hill raises its stately head. On this he etablished a true home in every sense of that word, no only supplying it with all the modern conveniences of life, but making it also a veritable bower of beautiful trees, plants, shrubs and flowers. It has been truly said of him that he was the Luther Burbank of Sheridan County, because where'er his hands touched the soil there sprang forth the beautiful in nature and his ability made the barren prairies to blossom as the rose. Nor did his labors for the benef!
it of humanity cease with his own home, since he was always ready and willing to donate trees and plants and lend assistance and give advice to others in order that they also might beautify their homes, so that today many stately trees and beautiful shrubs and flowers, not only in this county, but in the surrounding counties as well, owe their existance to the fact that William Sandoz lived and labored. Neither do these benefits cease with his death but will continue as long as trees grow and flowers bloom. Would that there were many more such as he was, because one such as he does more good for humanity thatn a thousand members of the so-called "uplift society," who go snooping around private homes, trying to discover the evils which exist only in their own narrow minds, in order to find an opportunity to enforce their crack brained thoeries, which unfortunately, they have induced congress and the various state legislatures to enact into laws. Mr. Sandoz often expressed!
the opinion that if these snooping meddlers would plant just one tree
and make it grow, instead of indulging in their present pastime, humanity would receive much more benefit.

Funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon, May 17, with the Rev. Hoagland and members of the M.E. Church Choir, and a delegration of the Modern Woodman Camp, of Hay Springs, of which the deceased was an honored and esteemed member for many years, in charge. After the services at the home, the funeral cortege, cinsisting of more than fifty cars, wended its way to the Beguin Cemetery, in Minnetonka precinct, where was laid to rest the mortal remains of William Sandoz, of whom it can be truthfully said that the world is much better because he lived in it.

He leaves his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Felix Sandoz, four grandchildren, two brothers and one sister in this country, one brother in Oregon, one brother in Switzerland, and a large host of friends to mourn and who feel keenly the loss they have sustained. The large concourse which gathered to pay their last respects fully attested the love and respect in which they held their deceased friend and neighbor and it was altogether fitting and proper that the casket was covered with a mountain of the flowers he loved so well.

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