Garnet Lenora Voss (1914-1918)&Maxine Lavon Voss (1916-1918)

VOSS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/22/2024 at 12:41:58

From Jewell Record October 24, 1918 (page 1)

MR. AND MRS. ELMER VOSS LOSE TWO CHILDREN

During the past week Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Voss have had the very great misfortune of losing their two youngest children. They had been sick for the past five or six weeks, suffering from a severe attack of whooping cough, and during those trying weeks the loving parents had done everything in their power to relieve the little ones' suffering and to aid them to regain their health. A short while ago some of the other members of the family became sick with the influenza which added to the trials of the stricken family. The little ones contracted pneumonia, and with their long illness from the whooping cough, they could not successfully fight this last affliction, and finally passed to the great beyond, where suffering is no more.

Garnett Lenora Voss was born January 22, 1914, and died December 17, 1918, age 4 years, 8 months and 27 days. Because of the quarantine prohibiting public funerals, only private services were held at the home, attended by the relatives on Saturday at 2:00 o'clock P. M. Rev. Wilson, the Methodist pastor of Radcliffe, conducted the services.

Maxine Lavon Voss was born December 20, 1916, and died Sunday October 20, 1918, age 1 year and 10 months. Private funeral services also were held for little Maxine, conducted by Rev. Wilson, at the home on Tuesday at 2:00 o'clock P. M.

Besides the mother and father the little ones leave to older sisters and a brother to mourn their untimely death. The entire community unites in extending to the bereaved family their sincere, heartfelt sympathy in their great loss.