CURWOOD RITES HELD IN OWOSSO
Simplicity marks services for noted
author; business at standstill.
SPECIAL TO FREE PRESS
Owosso, Mich., Aug. 16—With Governor Fred W. Green, the state conservation director and several members of the conservation commission acting as honorary pallbearers, James Oliver Curwood, author and conservationist, was laid to rest here this afternoon following funeral services at his home.
Burial took place in Oak Hill Cemetery, beside the graves of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Moran Curwood.
The rites were marked by simplicity.
The home of the author was filled with intimate friends while hundreds stood about the spacious grounds and streets adjacent to the residence. State Police led the funeral cortege. Members of the Shiawassee Conservation Association, of which Mr. Curwood was a director, attended in a body, as did members of Owosso Lodge No. 81, F. & A. M., which the author had recently joined.
Dr. J. Twyson Jones, pastor of the First Congregational Church, and an intimate friend of the author, in the funeral sermon, eulogized Curwood as “a man who has written his own eulogy on the imperishable scroll of undying fame.”
The pastor said Curwood’s three hobbies were writing, conservation and social betterment, declaring that “the passive and selfish politician” did not command Curwood’s respect. Dr. Jones also paid the writer tribute for the many things he had done for Owosso, the town of his birth.