Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1917 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Died, of heart trouble on Sept. 8, at Holy Family Academy, Beaverville, 111., Lucille, 15 year old daughter of James and Lucy Walter, of this city. The deceased was born in Rensselaer, Ind., March 27, 1902. » The corpse was brought home on Saturday, day of death, where it remained in state until Tuesday morninf, when after having been blessed according to the rights of the church, it was escorted to St. Augustine s Catholic church by the school children and a large concourse of friends and relatives. Solemn Requiem was sung by the children’s choir, of which she had been a faithful member. She was buried at Mount Calvary’s Catholic cemetery. The funeral services in the church were conducted by the Rev. Ch. Daniel, pastor, assisted by the Rev. I. Wagner and R. Stolz, both of St. Joseph’s college and intimate friends of the family of the deceased. After service Rev. Father Daniel delivered a very appropriate sermon, dwelling on the merits of the deceased, saying among other beautiful sentiments, that although this maiden was young in years, she had attained mature age in the practice of virtue. That gray hairs of old age is not considered in the sight of God, who does not reckon time when dealing with the deeds of His creatures. This maiden had weighed well the injunctions of Holy Scripture, to seek first the Kingdom of God for which alone man was created. To know and love God and to serve Him in this world, that we might be happy with Him forever in the next. a , ■■ She had practiced all this from early childhood, having been endowed with an unusual keen sense of right and wrong. Her one aim was to live for the God who had created her. She began and ended her day’s tasks for and with Him. We have two reasons to believe that she has now reaped the reward allotted to those who remember their creator in the days of their youth.