Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — Funeral of Bernice Iliff. [ARTICLE]

Funeral of Bernice Iliff.

The funeral of Bernice Illff was •held at the Iliff home on the Firman Thompson ranch at 2 p. m., Friday, July 25th. Several hundred people' came to pay their last respects and to show their sympathy to the mourning family. The funeral services were conducted by I Rev. Samsel, of Logansport, pasrtor ;of the church at Parr, and the music which was furnished by a quartette from the same church, consisted of ttm favorite songs of the young girl, who was a lover of music. The floral offerings were many and very beautiful as all the community shared the grief which came to this home. The Sunshine Junior Class, the C. E. and the Bible Sehool, of which the deceased was a faithful member, were represented by floral offerings. The pallbearers were six young boys, schoolmates of Bernice, and the honorary pallbearers were six girls, also school friends. Interment was made )in Fair Oaks cemetery. Bernice Iliff was born Oct. 30th, 1898, and died July 22, 1913. She had been in good health most of the time since undergoing an operation for appendicitis some four ye'ars ago, and was sick only a short time before her death.

She took very sick Monday morning, July 21, and her condition became so much worse that the family physieian Was called. He diagonized her disease as internal hemorrhages of the bowels and at once realized the seriousness of the case. Dr. Luther of the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, was summoned to operate if practicable. He arrived on the 11 o’clock train Monday evening but decided that the patient wag too weak to undergo an operation. The mother, who was visiting in Montana, was at once notified of her illness, but reached home too late $o see her alive. She kept sinking from 2 a. m. until she passed away at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday morning. She leaves a mother and father, two sisters, Opal and Florence, as well as a host of .relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The entire community was shocked by the sudden death, and -all that could be done was done by friends and neighbors to aid the grief stricken family. The mother did not know of the death of her daughter until she reached Chicago. Bernice was a beautiful girl, bright in her studies and gifted with unusual musical talent. She was popular witli her classmates and friends, and her loss is great to all who knew her. Faithful in her attendance at Sunday School and Endeavor, to which she belonged. was prepared for the end when it came and passed to a peace beyond the dark river which all mortals have to cross some day. Resolutions of Condolence. We, the undersigned committee of the Parr Sunday School and Christian Endeavor, do in this mariner wish to express our regrets for the loss of Bernice Iliff from our midst, and to extend our deepest sympathy tp the surviving family. Edna Babcock, Roxie Gunyon, Jessie Rardin. Said resolutions to be recorded in the S. S. and .Endeavor annals.