Death is always sad, but this death that has come to our community so unexpectely, coming like whirlwind and catching up one of our choicest young matrons, is most appalling to us. Having every good thing of earth youth, health, a lovely home, a beloved, and loving husband, two beautiful little children...a son and a daughter, parents and brothers by who she was counted as pure gold. Her friends were as the sands of the sea.
A young Christian mother, whose sunny smile will no more beam on the little ones she was wont to direct each Sabbath morn, for she was a teacher in the Varna Sunday School and no day was too bad for her to remain away from the work she loved.
This death is about the saddest that Varna has ever experienced, apparently having perfect health is suddenly stricken down with scarlet fever and day by day grew worse and worse until death came to relieve her sufferings. She attended school at Varna,Ill.
She was united in marriage to Alfred R. Wright, Dec. 14, 1904, also of Varna. Rev. Dudman of the Varna, LaRose charge read the marriage service at LaRose. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Skinner of Varna.
The cause of her death was Bright's disease brought on by a very severe case of scarlet fever. What made it so very sad was that the house was quarantined. The little son Harold Alfred was recovering from the disease and the little daughter Lois Alta was ill. The young father and husband was shut in also.
Two nurses were sent for and came. Local doctors were called in and a specialist was wired from Chicago. No expense nor pains were spared. Every suggestion was met, hoping that the tide would turn for the suffering one and she would regain her wanted good health. But, also, for the hopes of the anxious watchers.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Wright who had but a short time before bade their children and grandchildren goodbye for the winter months and had barely reached Lyford, Texas, their winter home, when the messenger of death turned their happiness to sorrow and they at once started back, but they could not go to see her.
But an arrangement was made that relatives could take a farewell look at the beloved form and features through the window, a sad comfort, but a comfort nevertheless to carry with them through the year to come. Thirty-one years, 10 months and five days was her span of life and well did she improve each shining hour in good works in loving care of her children and husband, and never was a daughter-in-law better beloved than this worthy one.
The interment was made Dec. 4th at 3 o'clock p.m. Rev. Lackland reading a brief bural service for the dead. She was laid to rest in the Wright family lot north of Varna adjoining the Swedish cemetery.
Her newly made grave was covered with beautiful flowers, flowers from the M. E. Sunday School, a handsome bouquet of carnations from the parents, brother Anderson Skinner, mother and daughter Beulah from Wenona, a bouquet of carnations from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gants of Wenona and many other flowers covered the mound where the first snow of the season touched it lovingly.
She is gone from our sight forever more, but the ones who remain carry in their hearts a blessing for the years of kindly acts and loving words for them in their hour of sorrow.
A young Christian mother, whose sunny smile will no more beam on the little ones she was wont to direct each Sabbath morn, for she was a teacher in the Varna Sunday School and no day was too bad for her to remain away from the work she loved.
This death is about the saddest that Varna has ever experienced, apparently having perfect health is suddenly stricken down with scarlet fever and day by day grew worse and worse until death came to relieve her sufferings. She attended school at Varna,Ill.
She was united in marriage to Alfred R. Wright, Dec. 14, 1904, also of Varna. Rev. Dudman of the Varna, LaRose charge read the marriage service at LaRose. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Skinner of Varna.
The cause of her death was Bright's disease brought on by a very severe case of scarlet fever. What made it so very sad was that the house was quarantined. The little son Harold Alfred was recovering from the disease and the little daughter Lois Alta was ill. The young father and husband was shut in also.
Two nurses were sent for and came. Local doctors were called in and a specialist was wired from Chicago. No expense nor pains were spared. Every suggestion was met, hoping that the tide would turn for the suffering one and she would regain her wanted good health. But, also, for the hopes of the anxious watchers.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Wright who had but a short time before bade their children and grandchildren goodbye for the winter months and had barely reached Lyford, Texas, their winter home, when the messenger of death turned their happiness to sorrow and they at once started back, but they could not go to see her.
But an arrangement was made that relatives could take a farewell look at the beloved form and features through the window, a sad comfort, but a comfort nevertheless to carry with them through the year to come. Thirty-one years, 10 months and five days was her span of life and well did she improve each shining hour in good works in loving care of her children and husband, and never was a daughter-in-law better beloved than this worthy one.
The interment was made Dec. 4th at 3 o'clock p.m. Rev. Lackland reading a brief bural service for the dead. She was laid to rest in the Wright family lot north of Varna adjoining the Swedish cemetery.
Her newly made grave was covered with beautiful flowers, flowers from the M. E. Sunday School, a handsome bouquet of carnations from the parents, brother Anderson Skinner, mother and daughter Beulah from Wenona, a bouquet of carnations from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gants of Wenona and many other flowers covered the mound where the first snow of the season touched it lovingly.
She is gone from our sight forever more, but the ones who remain carry in their hearts a blessing for the years of kindly acts and loving words for them in their hour of sorrow.
Death is always sad, but this death that has come to our community so unexpectely, coming like whirlwind and catching up one of our choicest young matrons, is most appalling to us. Having every good thing of earth youth, health, a lovely home, a beloved, and loving husband, two beautiful little children...a son and a daughter, parents and brothers by who she was counted as pure gold. Her friends were as the sands of the sea.
A young Christian mother, whose sunny smile will no more beam on the little ones she was wont to direct each Sabbath morn, for she was a teacher in the Varna Sunday School and no day was too bad for her to remain away from the work she loved.
This death is about the saddest that Varna has ever experienced, apparently having perfect health is suddenly stricken down with scarlet fever and day by day grew worse and worse until death came to relieve her sufferings. She attended school at Varna,Ill.
She was united in marriage to Alfred R. Wright, Dec. 14, 1904, also of Varna. Rev. Dudman of the Varna, LaRose charge read the marriage service at LaRose. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Skinner of Varna.
The cause of her death was Bright's disease brought on by a very severe case of scarlet fever. What made it so very sad was that the house was quarantined. The little son Harold Alfred was recovering from the disease and the little daughter Lois Alta was ill. The young father and husband was shut in also.
Two nurses were sent for and came. Local doctors were called in and a specialist was wired from Chicago. No expense nor pains were spared. Every suggestion was met, hoping that the tide would turn for the suffering one and she would regain her wanted good health. But, also, for the hopes of the anxious watchers.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Wright who had but a short time before bade their children and grandchildren goodbye for the winter months and had barely reached Lyford, Texas, their winter home, when the messenger of death turned their happiness to sorrow and they at once started back, but they could not go to see her.
But an arrangement was made that relatives could take a farewell look at the beloved form and features through the window, a sad comfort, but a comfort nevertheless to carry with them through the year to come. Thirty-one years, 10 months and five days was her span of life and well did she improve each shining hour in good works in loving care of her children and husband, and never was a daughter-in-law better beloved than this worthy one.
The interment was made Dec. 4th at 3 o'clock p.m. Rev. Lackland reading a brief bural service for the dead. She was laid to rest in the Wright family lot north of Varna adjoining the Swedish cemetery.
Her newly made grave was covered with beautiful flowers, flowers from the M. E. Sunday School, a handsome bouquet of carnations from the parents, brother Anderson Skinner, mother and daughter Beulah from Wenona, a bouquet of carnations from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gants of Wenona and many other flowers covered the mound where the first snow of the season touched it lovingly.
She is gone from our sight forever more, but the ones who remain carry in their hearts a blessing for the years of kindly acts and loving words for them in their hour of sorrow.
A young Christian mother, whose sunny smile will no more beam on the little ones she was wont to direct each Sabbath morn, for she was a teacher in the Varna Sunday School and no day was too bad for her to remain away from the work she loved.
This death is about the saddest that Varna has ever experienced, apparently having perfect health is suddenly stricken down with scarlet fever and day by day grew worse and worse until death came to relieve her sufferings. She attended school at Varna,Ill.
She was united in marriage to Alfred R. Wright, Dec. 14, 1904, also of Varna. Rev. Dudman of the Varna, LaRose charge read the marriage service at LaRose. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Skinner of Varna.
The cause of her death was Bright's disease brought on by a very severe case of scarlet fever. What made it so very sad was that the house was quarantined. The little son Harold Alfred was recovering from the disease and the little daughter Lois Alta was ill. The young father and husband was shut in also.
Two nurses were sent for and came. Local doctors were called in and a specialist was wired from Chicago. No expense nor pains were spared. Every suggestion was met, hoping that the tide would turn for the suffering one and she would regain her wanted good health. But, also, for the hopes of the anxious watchers.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Wright who had but a short time before bade their children and grandchildren goodbye for the winter months and had barely reached Lyford, Texas, their winter home, when the messenger of death turned their happiness to sorrow and they at once started back, but they could not go to see her.
But an arrangement was made that relatives could take a farewell look at the beloved form and features through the window, a sad comfort, but a comfort nevertheless to carry with them through the year to come. Thirty-one years, 10 months and five days was her span of life and well did she improve each shining hour in good works in loving care of her children and husband, and never was a daughter-in-law better beloved than this worthy one.
The interment was made Dec. 4th at 3 o'clock p.m. Rev. Lackland reading a brief bural service for the dead. She was laid to rest in the Wright family lot north of Varna adjoining the Swedish cemetery.
Her newly made grave was covered with beautiful flowers, flowers from the M. E. Sunday School, a handsome bouquet of carnations from the parents, brother Anderson Skinner, mother and daughter Beulah from Wenona, a bouquet of carnations from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gants of Wenona and many other flowers covered the mound where the first snow of the season touched it lovingly.
She is gone from our sight forever more, but the ones who remain carry in their hearts a blessing for the years of kindly acts and loving words for them in their hour of sorrow.
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