Kennard Enterprise 25 Jan 1910
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One of Kennard's Honored Sons Passes to His Reward.
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Leonard N. Miller, M.D.
Born July 2, 1887, aged 22 years, 6 months, 19 days. Died January 21, 1910
Leonard N. Miller, son of Mrs. C. Willumsen, and the late Niels Miller, was born near Kennard, Neb., July 2, 1887. He was baptized in infancy and grew to young manhood in Kennard and proved himself a creditable pupil in our local public schools, and after having exhausted every local facility for education, entered the medical class in Creighton University at Omaha, where he finished the course, and 1908 was graduated, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
After having served a year as interne in St. Joseph hospital, he entered into regular practice in South Dakota.
A short time after establishing practice the symptoms of his last illness manifested themselves, and were of such a nature as to baffle medical skill and render an accurate diagnosis well nigh impossible, but it was evident that cancer in some form entered very largely into the complication.
He traveled extensively visiting in succession such large cities as Omaha Chicago and New York in a vain effort to secure effective treatment and while a patient in the General Memorial hospital in New York, was about to cable for a specialist from Paris, when the doctors decided that the only wise thing to do was to remove him to his home while he was yet strong enough to undertake the journey.
He was brought home early in December, and was immediately confined to his bed where everything possible, in which, patience and tender nursing was done to make him comfortable.
The patient grew steadily weaker and often times was attacked by seasons of intense suffering but toward the last the pain had left him and his passing away was attended by a quiet, gentle, gradual slipping away death occurring in the early morning of January 21st, 1910. A post mortum examination revealed the fact his disease was that known to medical science as Lympho-Sarcoma.
He had been received into the fellowship of Grace Methodist Episcopal church in Kennard, and his constant testimony, was of his knowledge of the Power of Jesus Christ to forgive all short comings, and to cleanse from sin. In the afternoon preceding his death he had bidden all good bye, and from thence forward his constant expression was, "Jesus, dear Jesus".
At the funeral, the Rev. Mr. Hiller, who was a frequent visitor at his bedside, spoke from the fiftieth verse of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm, "This comfort have I in my affliction: Thy word hath quickened me," and he dwelt upon the faith attended him in his suffering and the triumph of his faith in the hour of death. He spoke of the moral legacies he bequeathed to those who remained.
To his classmates, would fall the lot of filling his place in the world, just as the soldiers in an army fill in the gap when a comrade falls.
To his mother and fiancée who were faithful and devoted attendants, he left the memory of one who had did in the saving faith of the gospel and the character of earnest manhood.
The sympathies of the entire community go out to the family and relatives, and also to Miss Stella Elder, his fiancé, whose home is in Des Moines, Iowa, and to whom he was to have been married during the holiday season just passed.
Called Home
One of Kennard's Honored Sons Passes to His Reward.
(photo)
Leonard N. Miller, M.D.
Born July 2, 1887, aged 22 years, 6 months, 19 days. Died January 21, 1910
Leonard N. Miller, son of Mrs. C. Willumsen, and the late Niels Miller, was born near Kennard, Neb., July 2, 1887. He was baptized in infancy and grew to young manhood in Kennard and proved himself a creditable pupil in our local public schools, and after having exhausted every local facility for education, entered the medical class in Creighton University at Omaha, where he finished the course, and 1908 was graduated, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
After having served a year as interne in St. Joseph hospital, he entered into regular practice in South Dakota.
A short time after establishing practice the symptoms of his last illness manifested themselves, and were of such a nature as to baffle medical skill and render an accurate diagnosis well nigh impossible, but it was evident that cancer in some form entered very largely into the complication.
He traveled extensively visiting in succession such large cities as Omaha Chicago and New York in a vain effort to secure effective treatment and while a patient in the General Memorial hospital in New York, was about to cable for a specialist from Paris, when the doctors decided that the only wise thing to do was to remove him to his home while he was yet strong enough to undertake the journey.
He was brought home early in December, and was immediately confined to his bed where everything possible, in which, patience and tender nursing was done to make him comfortable.
The patient grew steadily weaker and often times was attacked by seasons of intense suffering but toward the last the pain had left him and his passing away was attended by a quiet, gentle, gradual slipping away death occurring in the early morning of January 21st, 1910. A post mortum examination revealed the fact his disease was that known to medical science as Lympho-Sarcoma.
He had been received into the fellowship of Grace Methodist Episcopal church in Kennard, and his constant testimony, was of his knowledge of the Power of Jesus Christ to forgive all short comings, and to cleanse from sin. In the afternoon preceding his death he had bidden all good bye, and from thence forward his constant expression was, "Jesus, dear Jesus".
At the funeral, the Rev. Mr. Hiller, who was a frequent visitor at his bedside, spoke from the fiftieth verse of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm, "This comfort have I in my affliction: Thy word hath quickened me," and he dwelt upon the faith attended him in his suffering and the triumph of his faith in the hour of death. He spoke of the moral legacies he bequeathed to those who remained.
To his classmates, would fall the lot of filling his place in the world, just as the soldiers in an army fill in the gap when a comrade falls.
To his mother and fiancée who were faithful and devoted attendants, he left the memory of one who had did in the saving faith of the gospel and the character of earnest manhood.
The sympathies of the entire community go out to the family and relatives, and also to Miss Stella Elder, his fiancé, whose home is in Des Moines, Iowa, and to whom he was to have been married during the holiday season just passed.
Kennard Enterprise 25 Jan 1910
Called Home
One of Kennard's Honored Sons Passes to His Reward.
(photo)
Leonard N. Miller, M.D.
Born July 2, 1887, aged 22 years, 6 months, 19 days. Died January 21, 1910
Leonard N. Miller, son of Mrs. C. Willumsen, and the late Niels Miller, was born near Kennard, Neb., July 2, 1887. He was baptized in infancy and grew to young manhood in Kennard and proved himself a creditable pupil in our local public schools, and after having exhausted every local facility for education, entered the medical class in Creighton University at Omaha, where he finished the course, and 1908 was graduated, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
After having served a year as interne in St. Joseph hospital, he entered into regular practice in South Dakota.
A short time after establishing practice the symptoms of his last illness manifested themselves, and were of such a nature as to baffle medical skill and render an accurate diagnosis well nigh impossible, but it was evident that cancer in some form entered very largely into the complication.
He traveled extensively visiting in succession such large cities as Omaha Chicago and New York in a vain effort to secure effective treatment and while a patient in the General Memorial hospital in New York, was about to cable for a specialist from Paris, when the doctors decided that the only wise thing to do was to remove him to his home while he was yet strong enough to undertake the journey.
He was brought home early in December, and was immediately confined to his bed where everything possible, in which, patience and tender nursing was done to make him comfortable.
The patient grew steadily weaker and often times was attacked by seasons of intense suffering but toward the last the pain had left him and his passing away was attended by a quiet, gentle, gradual slipping away death occurring in the early morning of January 21st, 1910. A post mortum examination revealed the fact his disease was that known to medical science as Lympho-Sarcoma.
He had been received into the fellowship of Grace Methodist Episcopal church in Kennard, and his constant testimony, was of his knowledge of the Power of Jesus Christ to forgive all short comings, and to cleanse from sin. In the afternoon preceding his death he had bidden all good bye, and from thence forward his constant expression was, "Jesus, dear Jesus".
At the funeral, the Rev. Mr. Hiller, who was a frequent visitor at his bedside, spoke from the fiftieth verse of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm, "This comfort have I in my affliction: Thy word hath quickened me," and he dwelt upon the faith attended him in his suffering and the triumph of his faith in the hour of death. He spoke of the moral legacies he bequeathed to those who remained.
To his classmates, would fall the lot of filling his place in the world, just as the soldiers in an army fill in the gap when a comrade falls.
To his mother and fiancée who were faithful and devoted attendants, he left the memory of one who had did in the saving faith of the gospel and the character of earnest manhood.
The sympathies of the entire community go out to the family and relatives, and also to Miss Stella Elder, his fiancé, whose home is in Des Moines, Iowa, and to whom he was to have been married during the holiday season just passed.
Called Home
One of Kennard's Honored Sons Passes to His Reward.
(photo)
Leonard N. Miller, M.D.
Born July 2, 1887, aged 22 years, 6 months, 19 days. Died January 21, 1910
Leonard N. Miller, son of Mrs. C. Willumsen, and the late Niels Miller, was born near Kennard, Neb., July 2, 1887. He was baptized in infancy and grew to young manhood in Kennard and proved himself a creditable pupil in our local public schools, and after having exhausted every local facility for education, entered the medical class in Creighton University at Omaha, where he finished the course, and 1908 was graduated, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
After having served a year as interne in St. Joseph hospital, he entered into regular practice in South Dakota.
A short time after establishing practice the symptoms of his last illness manifested themselves, and were of such a nature as to baffle medical skill and render an accurate diagnosis well nigh impossible, but it was evident that cancer in some form entered very largely into the complication.
He traveled extensively visiting in succession such large cities as Omaha Chicago and New York in a vain effort to secure effective treatment and while a patient in the General Memorial hospital in New York, was about to cable for a specialist from Paris, when the doctors decided that the only wise thing to do was to remove him to his home while he was yet strong enough to undertake the journey.
He was brought home early in December, and was immediately confined to his bed where everything possible, in which, patience and tender nursing was done to make him comfortable.
The patient grew steadily weaker and often times was attacked by seasons of intense suffering but toward the last the pain had left him and his passing away was attended by a quiet, gentle, gradual slipping away death occurring in the early morning of January 21st, 1910. A post mortum examination revealed the fact his disease was that known to medical science as Lympho-Sarcoma.
He had been received into the fellowship of Grace Methodist Episcopal church in Kennard, and his constant testimony, was of his knowledge of the Power of Jesus Christ to forgive all short comings, and to cleanse from sin. In the afternoon preceding his death he had bidden all good bye, and from thence forward his constant expression was, "Jesus, dear Jesus".
At the funeral, the Rev. Mr. Hiller, who was a frequent visitor at his bedside, spoke from the fiftieth verse of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm, "This comfort have I in my affliction: Thy word hath quickened me," and he dwelt upon the faith attended him in his suffering and the triumph of his faith in the hour of death. He spoke of the moral legacies he bequeathed to those who remained.
To his classmates, would fall the lot of filling his place in the world, just as the soldiers in an army fill in the gap when a comrade falls.
To his mother and fiancée who were faithful and devoted attendants, he left the memory of one who had did in the saving faith of the gospel and the character of earnest manhood.
The sympathies of the entire community go out to the family and relatives, and also to Miss Stella Elder, his fiancé, whose home is in Des Moines, Iowa, and to whom he was to have been married during the holiday season just passed.
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