Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1913 — YEAR OF SICKNESS ENDS IN GIRL’S DEATH [ARTICLE]

YEAR OF SICKNESS ENDS IN GIRL’S DEATH

Miss Ruth Parkison Died Sunday Evening, Only a Week After Her ■ Return From Kingman, Kan.

Miss Ruth Parkison, a graduate of the Rensselaer high school last year, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Parkison, and a beautiful and popular girl, died Sunday evening at 7:15 o’clock. She was conscious up to the very moment of death. Ruth’s health failed slightly ba fore the close of school last year, but it was not regarded as critical until a month later, when the family, on the advice of the local physician and a Chicago specialist decided to take her to the 'southwest, and on July 12th the family removed to Kingman, Kans. The change seemed to result in a great deal of benefit and the early plan to go further to the southwest was abandoned because it was believed her health would be restored without going* further from home. The Improvement continued until March 2nd, when stomach trouble started and this developed so rapidly that the family soon realized that it would result fatally unless it could be forestalled. Ruth was anxious to be returned to her old home, and this was done, the family being met i n Chicago by a local physician and arriving here Sunday, May 4th, just a week before she died. A cheerful, happy girl, a ray of sunshine in the home, a merry-hearted companion in any company, her death has cast a gloom over the community as well as in the home, and the people of Rensselaer are deeply sympathetic to the family in their great loss. Ruth would have been 19 years of age the coming 3rd of July. The funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence on North Weston street. She leaves her parents, three brothers and two sisters, namely, John, George, Kenton and Jane Parkison, and Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades, and many other relatives and friends to mourn her death.