OBITUARY
William McKinley Kelley
William McKinley Kelley, aged eight years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kelley, residing on Drake Ave. died Wednesday, May 27, 1903, at the home of his parents of pneumonia which developed during an attack of measles. Besides his sorrowing parents he leaves four brothers, all older, and one sister, Margaret. The brothers are John, Joseph, Edmond and James. All were present at the funeral.
It was not thought that he was seriously sick until the near the end and then all the family could do in the way of medical aid and care was unavailing. Before his sickness he was very much interested in preparations for the close of school when he was to appear on the program and speak the piece, Barbara Frietche. He was in Miss Jessie Maloney's room at Garfield school and was known by his classmates as a very agreeable companion and his death has brought sadness to them as well as to the home in which he contributed so much to the comfort of his parents.
Card of Thanks
Dear friends and neighbors we desire to express our heartfelt gratitude for your kind assistance and spontaneous display of human sympathy. We doubt if there is anything in the universe of God nearer to Christ-like love than sympathy for human suffering, leaping as it does all the petty bounds of conventionality, and descending like an angel of light on the hearts of the afflicted. Receive again our sincere thanks. And our sincerest hope that we may never have to respond in kind.
J. E. Kelley and family.
Centerville, Ia. May 29
[Obituary and Card of Thanks published in The Semi-Weekly Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa, Friday, June 5, 1903]
William McKinley Kelley
William McKinley Kelley, aged eight years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kelley, residing on Drake Ave. died Wednesday, May 27, 1903, at the home of his parents of pneumonia which developed during an attack of measles. Besides his sorrowing parents he leaves four brothers, all older, and one sister, Margaret. The brothers are John, Joseph, Edmond and James. All were present at the funeral.
It was not thought that he was seriously sick until the near the end and then all the family could do in the way of medical aid and care was unavailing. Before his sickness he was very much interested in preparations for the close of school when he was to appear on the program and speak the piece, Barbara Frietche. He was in Miss Jessie Maloney's room at Garfield school and was known by his classmates as a very agreeable companion and his death has brought sadness to them as well as to the home in which he contributed so much to the comfort of his parents.
Card of Thanks
Dear friends and neighbors we desire to express our heartfelt gratitude for your kind assistance and spontaneous display of human sympathy. We doubt if there is anything in the universe of God nearer to Christ-like love than sympathy for human suffering, leaping as it does all the petty bounds of conventionality, and descending like an angel of light on the hearts of the afflicted. Receive again our sincere thanks. And our sincerest hope that we may never have to respond in kind.
J. E. Kelley and family.
Centerville, Ia. May 29
[Obituary and Card of Thanks published in The Semi-Weekly Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa, Friday, June 5, 1903]
OBITUARY
William McKinley Kelley
William McKinley Kelley, aged eight years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kelley, residing on Drake Ave. died Wednesday, May 27, 1903, at the home of his parents of pneumonia which developed during an attack of measles. Besides his sorrowing parents he leaves four brothers, all older, and one sister, Margaret. The brothers are John, Joseph, Edmond and James. All were present at the funeral.
It was not thought that he was seriously sick until the near the end and then all the family could do in the way of medical aid and care was unavailing. Before his sickness he was very much interested in preparations for the close of school when he was to appear on the program and speak the piece, Barbara Frietche. He was in Miss Jessie Maloney's room at Garfield school and was known by his classmates as a very agreeable companion and his death has brought sadness to them as well as to the home in which he contributed so much to the comfort of his parents.
Card of Thanks
Dear friends and neighbors we desire to express our heartfelt gratitude for your kind assistance and spontaneous display of human sympathy. We doubt if there is anything in the universe of God nearer to Christ-like love than sympathy for human suffering, leaping as it does all the petty bounds of conventionality, and descending like an angel of light on the hearts of the afflicted. Receive again our sincere thanks. And our sincerest hope that we may never have to respond in kind.
J. E. Kelley and family.
Centerville, Ia. May 29
[Obituary and Card of Thanks published in The Semi-Weekly Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa, Friday, June 5, 1903]
William McKinley Kelley
William McKinley Kelley, aged eight years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kelley, residing on Drake Ave. died Wednesday, May 27, 1903, at the home of his parents of pneumonia which developed during an attack of measles. Besides his sorrowing parents he leaves four brothers, all older, and one sister, Margaret. The brothers are John, Joseph, Edmond and James. All were present at the funeral.
It was not thought that he was seriously sick until the near the end and then all the family could do in the way of medical aid and care was unavailing. Before his sickness he was very much interested in preparations for the close of school when he was to appear on the program and speak the piece, Barbara Frietche. He was in Miss Jessie Maloney's room at Garfield school and was known by his classmates as a very agreeable companion and his death has brought sadness to them as well as to the home in which he contributed so much to the comfort of his parents.
Card of Thanks
Dear friends and neighbors we desire to express our heartfelt gratitude for your kind assistance and spontaneous display of human sympathy. We doubt if there is anything in the universe of God nearer to Christ-like love than sympathy for human suffering, leaping as it does all the petty bounds of conventionality, and descending like an angel of light on the hearts of the afflicted. Receive again our sincere thanks. And our sincerest hope that we may never have to respond in kind.
J. E. Kelley and family.
Centerville, Ia. May 29
[Obituary and Card of Thanks published in The Semi-Weekly Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa, Friday, June 5, 1903]
