Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — Obituary [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Obituary

Dean Vance Harrington. Dean Vance Harrington, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Harrington of Union township, ' was born at the home of his grandparents in Virgie November 3, 1914, and died at the Jasper county hospital in Rensselaer June 11, 1918, aged three years, seven months and eight days. The funeral was 'held Thursday afternoon at the Christian church at Fair Oaks at 2:30 o’clock and burial made in the Fair Oaks cemetery. Dean was a remarkably bright child and was idolized by all who knew him. He bore his long sickness with remarkable patience and fortitude. While everything was done that love and money could do to soothe the ills of life, it proved unavailing and his brave, lovely and patient spirit was compelled to vacate its tenement of clay for “a house not made with hands.” If, as Mrs. Stowe said, there is a special band of angels in heaven to be sent down to gladden us with their presence for a brief space of time, then to take their upward flight bearing our hearts with them, surely Deanie was one of them, and with complete Christian resignation and fortitude we will »say, “not farewell, but good-bye dearie, till we meet again in that land where death will be felt and feared no more.’’ xx