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Obituary

Another good man has gone. Mr. B.J.J. Andress answered the imperative call at 2:10 yesterday afternoon. He arose in the morning as well as usual, ate breakfast with a relish and went, after a few moments' cheerful conversation with his wife, to his work. At a little before 11 o'clock he was taken suddenly ill. A phone cal brought his wife to his side, and a few moments later a physician arrived, but he seemed already beyond help. It is likely a rupture of an artery in the brain was the cause of the trouble. Unable to speak, except short words, after arriving at the home at Central avenue and Aetna street, he passed away at 2:10 p.m.
Mr. Andress was from an old Burlington family being the son of Mr. and Mrs. D.S. Andress, well known to Burlington people of fifty or sixty years ago. Bishop, as his old friends called him, was born September 21, 1850, in Rising Sun, Ind., but in his early boyhood his parents came back to Burlington, where the family had lived for a long time before. Here Mr. Andress lived and his children were born, of whom there are four: Oscar, of Council Blurss; Mrs. Maud Bowman, of Oakland; Mrs. Ella Chrsitianson, of Avoca, and Mrs. Bessie Forbes, of Omaha. Mr. Adnress was very proud of these children, and his heart interest centered in their fine career.
Mr. Andress went to Kansas for a time and took up land and laid the foundation for his business success. Coming back to Omaha he engaged in building, at which he was an expert. Some ten years ago he was united in marriage with Mrs. Rose De Guerre at Oakland, Ia., and they immediately came to Burlington and established the home in the substantial old place whch is a landmark on South Hill. Mr. Andress had been very happy ever since his return to Burlington. After Mrs. Andress' death five years ago he was married July 14, 1909, to Mrs. Millie Ellis, of La Grange, Mo., who, with his children, and Frank and Ralph De Guerre and Mrs. Andress' daughters, Mrs. Ann Parmeter and Miss Leila Ellis, are under the weight of the bereavement. Other close relatives, to whom Mr. Andress was warmly devoted, are his sister, MRs. Dora Tomlinson, of Burlington, and his brother, mr. Dillon Andress, of Oakland. The subject of this sketch was a good man. Possessed of marked idiosyncrasies, he wa pronouncedly ethical and devoutly Christain. He put conscience and thoroughness into his building, and did not need a master's eye to watch him He managed his own affairs well, and no one had to chase him to collect a bill he owed. He was interested in the best things of life. He had all his life been to a fair degree active in church work, and for ten years had been a member and an officer in Walnut Street Baptist church of this city. Last Sunday morning he served as deacon at the Lord's supper at the church, little thinking it was the last service he would attend here.
Two days before the end he expressed to a friend, in his characteristic way, a strong desire for just such a death as came to him. It came "in such an hour as we thought not." The serious, yet cheerful, little old man, and his quiet jokes and homely ways, will be missed from our streets. Doubtless he has awakened to the land of realizations.