Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

| “Gone home! Gone Homel His earnest active spirit, His very playfulness, his heart of love, The Heavenly mansion now he doth inherit. Which Christ made ready ere he went above. Death came •to little Kenneth | Hooker at the county hospital at eleven-thirty o’clock Tuesday morn- ! ing, the result of tubercular meningitis with which he had been suffering for some time. He was but seven years of age and entered the hospital June 7. Kenneth was the son of Isaac and Katherine Marlatt Hooker. He was born November 26, 1912, at Las Vegas, Mexico. The mother of the lad preceded him to the grave four years ago and since that time he had made ibis home with his uncle, John Iferllatt on North Weston street He had attended the Christian Sunday school and had completed his second year in the public school, where he endeared himself to teachers and pupils. Kenneth was a bright, lovable chap, whose sunny smile and winning ways touched every heart. He ' possessed a love for the beautiful and an appreciation of nature 'which was most unusual in a little i child. His cheerfulness was con- । tageous and his young life was an inspiration to all who knew him. His death has cast a great sorrow among relatives, friends and playmates. He will be missed but remembered by them. —CONTRIBUTED.