Mills County Tribune, June 17, 1918
The memorial services for Harvey T. Rimel on Sunday afternoon [June 16, 1918] and Glenwood had been advertised to take place in the Court House Park but were changed to the M. D. Church. The auditorium room and the annex of the building were filled to compacity.
The services began about 3 PM. The music was furnish by a quartet consisting of Messers. G. K. and E. G. Johnson, S. M. Criswell, and Harry Hamilton, with Mrs. Clyde Rhoads at the piano. The invocation went by Reverend Howard Mintle.
A short address was given by Captain R. A. Humphrey, who told of the military service of the deceased as a member of Company I. Lieutenant F. D. Logan told of the service in France by the deceased, showing convincingly that Corporal Rimel was apt in acquiring the new duties that devolve upon soldiers in France. W. S. Lewis spoke briefly of the connection of the deceased with the I.O.O.F. Order.
Reverend Edwyn Evans read the obituary of the deceased and followed this by a sermon of great power from the text “No man show is great and love them this that he died for his friends.The exercise closed with the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” An enlarged picture of the deceased, draped with an American flag, rested upon it easel upon the rostrum. Announcement was made of exercises at West Oak Church to be held that Sunday evening.
