Shuler - Harold - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The funeral service of Harold Shuler took place from the home Saturday afternoon and was one of the large attended funerals ever held in the town or community and there was doubtless a larger contribution of flowers and floral designs than any funeral ever held here. Scores of people from all over the state wer ein attendance some of which drove more than 100 miles in autos that they might attend and show their esteem. The Phi Gamma Fraternity of Bloomington attended in a body and opened the service with their funeral mode, after which Rev. OE Kelley of Terre Haute offered prayer. A male quartette of young men from Crawfordsville who were fellow graduates of Crawfordsville HS sang, The Sweet Bye and Bye after which Rev. WD Hedrick of Indianapolis preached a short discourse and was followed by Rev. Kelley reading the obituary, and an article from the pen of Ernest V. Shockley, a writer and author of Indianapolis after which he commented upon the home life of the family and the beautiful life of Harold as he had known it, covering the entire period of his life. The quartette then sang, Some Time We’ll Understand. The immediate family then took their leave of their honored dead after which the funeral processions, formed of more than 100 automobiles, wended its way to the Masonic Cemetery where the funeral rites of the Masonic fraternity were rendered by Judge Jere West of Crawfordsville. At the conclusion of the rites, the benediction was pronounced by Rev. Kelley and the hundreds in attendance wended their way to their respective homes. The family have received hundreds of letters and telegrams and other tokens of sympathy from all over the state and from a number of other states from NY to Missouri. These have come from little girls and boys,  young men and young women, doctors, lawyers, business men and heads of the departments of the University of Indiana. Those of us who knew Harold in his home town while we knew he was a gentleman in the strictest sense of the term and while we knew he was a splendid student, yet we did not realize that his greatness was so large that his death would cause thousands to mourn and that a great educational institution like Indiana University would be bowed in grief by his untimely death. We were proud of Harold Shuler in life but we appreciate him more in death. His life has been a sweet benediction to all that has come in contact with it and its splendid influence will go on and on to influence the lives of those living and those yet unborn.  The following tributes to the life of Harold Shuler by the Daily Student of Indiana University and by Ernest V. Shockley, secretary of the Phi Gamma Delta are beautiful expressions of the high esteem in which he was held by every one, at home, away from home and in educational and social circles. The death of J. Harold Shuler, announced elsewhere in those columns, means the passing of a positive force from the undergraduate life of Indiana University. As a student and a friend he was ever radiant with those qualities of manly enthusiasm which made him a power to be reckoned with in whatever he undertook.  Jack Shular stood ready to back up Indiana University Enterprises. In the organization of the Garrick Club last year he was one of the prime movers. In amateur dramatics he showed the industry and artistic appreciation of the genius. Toward the new Writers Club magazine of which he was editor, he evidenced the finest spirit of willingness and cooperation. Among his friends and associates he was a leader. Because of his sparling wit and compelling optimism the pleasure of his companionship was a real privilege. In the passing of Jack Shuler we of Indiana University lose. We lose a splendid man, a man whose loyalty to his friends and to his University has rarely been equaled.  In the very last days of his illness, Jack Shular (sic) was working for Indiana University. From his sick bed he was dictating daily letters to his associates here regarding this or that enterprise – the Garrick Club, the Writer’s Club, the feature column he was to conduct on The Daily Student and always with a word of true encouragement. We lose – Jack Shuler (sic) But he was such a man that we do not lose all. As an inspiration to uncompromising loyalty and endeavor there remains – his memory – Daily Student. -----J. Harold Shuler, affectionately known at Indiana University as Jack Shuler, was one of the best known and liked men of the University. On entering the University he became a member of the Greek letter fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta and was always active in the work of the organization. Few students have taken a more prominent part in University activities than jack and to what ever he turned his attention he made a success of it. As a member of the glee club of the dramatic organization of debating teams or in whatever activity he engaged, he threw his intense personality into the work and made his presence felt. But the striking thing about Jack was his clean and wholesome character. During his whole career at the University he conducted himself in such a way as to win and merit the approbation of the faculty and student body. Always cheerful, always pleasant, he lived a life which fairly radiated with sunshine and good cheer. It is not too much to say that there was not a student on campus better or more favorably known. The members of his college fraternity will miss him, for it was in the intimate associations which he ther formed that he was the best known. He always stood for uprightness, manliness and those sterling virtues which characterize men of true worth. Still a young in years, he gave abundant promise of being a man of whom the world might indeed be proud. The lives of such men as Harold Shular do not go out; they go on.  May his influence and memory of his life be as a beacon light to all those who came in contact with him – Ernest V. Shockley.