Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — MONNETT SCHOOL PUPIL DEAD [ARTICLE]

MONNETT SCHOOL PUPIL DEAD

First Death Among Pupils Sine* School Was Established. Georgia • Irene Ricftardson, a daughter of William A. Richardson of Clinton, Ind., but who had be*b attending the Monnett School for Girls, died at the county hospital Thursday evening about 5 o'clock from an acute attack of meningitis or an infection of the middle ear, caused from a recent attack of in-1 fluenza. Her age was 14 years, 8 months and 26 days. Brief services were held at the school, after which the remains were shipped to Ridge Farm, ill., yesteirday where burial will ba made Sunday. This is the first death that haß occurred among the pupils of the school in the past 12 years, or since the school was established.