People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Bianclic May Duvall, [ARTICLE]

Bianclic May Duvall,

Funeral bells are ringing today. Their sad tones proclaim the departure of soul from body to the land bcyohJ. The hand of tlte reaper, Death, reaches forth in this human garden and plucks from it loved plants. No effort can stay his ghastly harvest. His will is our will. Beloved friends and relatives, today are mourning the loss of a dear one—a veritable flower in this human garden. The blossom has paled, the stalk is broken, and the last slender fibre of life has departed-. Blanche May Duvall-, daughter of Q. W. and M. J. Duvall-, departed this life. January!, 1894. Aged years, 11 months 16 days. The cause of her death was congestion of the braih, brought about by complication of other disedsbs. At the time Of thd last attack, which occurred on Wednesday night of last week, littlb did her parents and friCnds thlhk that she was so neat death's door, but on Monday she succumbed to the inevitable, death. Her New Year’s resolution was a noble one—to live a better life. And alas! how true. How soon fulfilled. The funeral services occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, her pastor, Rev. Baech, conducti ngthe services. The sympathy of loving friends was attested by generous display of floral tributes and their attendance at the last sad rites of the deceased. The high school, of which she was a student at the time of her death, attended in a body. Her classmates have appropriately draped her desk in the school room. Her place is now vacant. The following young men acted as as pall bearers: Chas. Cox. Vernon Nowels, Gay Nowels, Earnest Wishard, Hallie Flynn, Jack Leahy. After impressive services at the church, the friends and relatives followed her remains to its last resting place in Weston cemetery. The bereaved parents and friends have the sympathy of the entire community.