LHA Uriah Leftwich Line.

On Tuesday, March 28th, at 1:20 the death angel entered the George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. and claimed for its own Doris Marie Alcock.

Doris was twelve (12) years and ten months old, and was only sick a week, but Oh! how much she did undergo in such a short time. She was operated on Thursday for acute appendicitis. Her appendix was found to be ruptured and appendicitis already set in. Doctors and nurses worked ever diligently over her but to no avail. Transfusions were given in hopes of saving her life, but God needed one more angel and he called little Doris home to heaven. We cannot understand why one so pure and sweet as Doris should have to leave this sinful world, when she could have done so much towards making it a better place for us to live in. To know Doris was to love her.

Funeral services were conducted at Forest, Baptist Church, Thursday, March 30th by Rev. B. L. Peters, who spoke most beautifully to a host of sorrowing relatives and friends. Burial was in the family square at the church. She is survived by father, mother, four brothers, Dallas, Olen, Arnold and Randolph; also four sisters, Mrs. C.E. (Reva) Williams and Eloise Alcock, all of Herndon, VA and Mrs. W.R. (Myrtle) May and Miss Sarah Alcock, of Roanoke. Pallbearers were Frank Massie, Lonnie Hawkins, Troy Coffee, Tom Reynolds, Willie and Lynch Leftwich. The beautiful flowers were borne by Misses Helen and Edith Marshall, Inez Hawkins, Hudie Wilson and Mrs. James Scott and Mrs. Frank Massie.

Mother, she gave blood my darling,
Hoping strength to give to you.
Sisters stayed and watched o'er you
Hoping you might pull through.
So sad, so sudden, was the call.
Your death was such a shock to all.
But with all things, God knows best,
So he took you, Doris home to rest.
The hands that did so much for us
Now how helpless they lay.
God knew they worked continuously
But Oh! they are gone today.
--Written by a sister-in-law, Pauline Allcock