Hancock County Journal
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
August 19, 1948
Page 4
Column 5Mrs. Rubie Hobart
Dies SaturdayFuneral services for Mrs. Rubie Day Hobart, who passed away Saturday morning in St. Francis hospital, Macomb, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Fountain Green Presbyterian church. Rev. James Sterenberg officiated and burial was in the Majorville cemetery.
Mrs. Hobart was born February 10, 1886, in Hancock county to John W. and Ellie F. Yetter Day. She married Leland Hobart June 16, 1907. She had lived in the Fountain Green vicinity all of her life.
Surviving with her husband are two of her brother Charles' children which she had reared. They are Fay Day of New York, Ill., and Mary Elizabeth Van Deventer of Des Moines, Iowa. A brother, Lawrence Day of Colchester, also survives. A sister, Mrs. Mabel Campbell and brothers, Charles and James, preceded her in death.
Hancock County Historical Society
Carthage, IllinoisSiegfried XIX
Page 299Mrs. Rubie Hobart, of
Fountain Green, DiesOne of the most prominent and useful residents of the Fountain Green community, Mrs. Rubie Day Hobart, passed away during the early morning hours Saturday, Aug. 14, 1948, at St. Francis hospital in Macomb.
The daughter of John William and Ella (Yetter) Day, she was born a few miles south of Fountain Green Feb. 10, 1886. As a child she attended the Pennsylvania rural school, later coming to Fountain Green and continuing her public school work here. Having early developed an alert mentality and fondness for books, she determined to become a teacher, so in order to bring this ambition to fruition, she attended Macomb Teachers' College, a private institution of higher education, conducted there before the advent of the State Normal.
After completing her college course she embarked upon her career as a teacher, a profession which she continued to follow with great success for over 20 years, being considered one of the best public school teachers in the county.
June 16, 1907, she was united in marriage to Leland S. Hobart, of the Webster community, where the new home was established. A number of years later they purchased the farm home one mile south of Fountain Green, where they have since resided.
From early childhood Rubie attended the Majorville Methodist Sunday School and church, with which she united at the age of 12, and in which she was an active worker for many years. After moving nearer to Fountain Green she began attending the Fountain Green Presbyterian church, but retained her membership at Majorville to the last. For a number of years she taught the teen-age girls' class in the Presbyterian Sunday School, and at the time of her death was the teacher of the ladies' class. Many are the pleasant memories of her conscientious and earnest teaching and of the many delightful social gatherings which those privileged to study under her had the opportunity of enjoying in her home.
She was a charter member of the Fountain Green Social Circle and Sarah G. Houston Guild, as well as the Majorville Social Circle. In the two former organizations she has been the very efficient treasurer for several years. She gave unstintingly of her time and talents to every organization of which she was a member and was a loyal and generous supporter of every worthwhile project, whether it was local, national or worldwide in scope. She was a woman of high ideals, very broad minded and democratic in her thinking and sincere in all that she did.
While Mr. and Mrs. Hobart had no children of their own, in 1924, upon the death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Day, who left four small children, they took into their home two of these motherless little ones, namely, Charles and Mary Elizabeth Day, to whom they gave much love and parental care. Later, the two remaining brothers, Fay and Clarence Day, likewise found under this roof tree a hearty welcome and wise and loving counsel, so that they too soon came to call it home. To all the other nieces and nephews and to her aged parents, so long as they lived, she and Mr. Hobart also showed every possible kindness and consideration.
Left to mourn her untimely passing, in addition to her husband, are one brother, Lawrence Day, of near Colchester, seven nieces and nephews Edward Day, Mrs. Twila Yard and Arlin Day, all of the Majorville neighborhood, Mrs. Alta Frances Wood, of Burlington, Iowa, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Vandeventer, of Des Moines, Iowa, William Day, of Galesburg, and Fay Day, of New York City, also an uncle, Maurice Yetter, of Fountain Green. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Day, her sister, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, her brothers, Charles and James Day, and two infant brothers, also the nephews, Charles and Clarence Day and Day Campbell and one niece, Dorothy Day, preceded her in death.
As a token of the high regard in which she was held, the Sarah G. Huston Guild and other friends in the Presbyterian church and Sunday School last January presented her with an honorary life membership in the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, an honor which pleased her greatly.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hobart were held at the Fountain Green Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon, the pastor, Dr. James Sterenberg, officiating. H. K. Hulson, of Colchester, accompanied by his wife, sang two selections, the first being a hymn entitled "Golden Dawn," which was just recently composed by Mr. Hobart's sister, Mrs. Frances Hobart Wright, who lives in the state of Washington.
Pallbearers were nephews of the deceased, William, Arlin, Edward and Fay Day, Duane Yard and Floyd Wood. Burial was in Majorville cemetery.
