Great Bend Tribune
Vol. LIV, No. 187, p. 1
Monday, March 17, 1930
IOLENE EWING DEAD
Popular Great Bend Girl Succumbs to Long Illness
The long but unavailing fight which Miss Iolene Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ewing of this city had made to recover from the illness of which she had been suffering the past six months ended this morning when death came suddenly while she slept.
Though the doctors had pronounced the disease incurable, and the parents and friends were prepared for the worst, Miss Iolene to the very last clung to the determination that she was going to recover and almost her last conscious words a few days ago were when she called her father to her bedside and said, "Daddy, I think I am going to get well."
She was a sweet and attractive girl, 21 years of age, and one of the most popular of Great Bend's young people. A graduate of Great Bend high school, she went to the University of Kansas where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and after attending college for two years undertook to teach school in this county for one term, at district No. 14, north of town. It was while she was teaching that she first became ill.
Not only a musician and active in social activities she also excelled in her studies and made scholastic records of merit but was also in student popularity contests. She belonged to the Methodist church in this city and took part in its services.
The disease which caused her death was myelitis, a disease of the spinal cord which resulted in a complication of things that steadily wore away her strength but in which she showed great vitality. Attacking her first with a partial paralysis of the hips this condition continued to the feet and gradually extended upward. She was taken to the hospital where she received constant medical attention and was there for five months under the constant care of physicians and specialists, who were called here in an attempt to effect a cure. She was almost continually in pain, and though the attending physicians could offer no hope of recovery she maintained firmly that she would.
Among the things she cherished most were the constant remembrances of her many boy and girl friends, who thought they could not visit her often, sent her letters and flowers and she kept a record of every remembrance with the intention of replying to it when she got better. Several times during her long illness, the physicians said the end was near, but she would apparently become stronger though she gradually lost in weight and strength.
Her case is the only one of its kind in the records of the local hospital and attracted the attention of many physicians and specialists. An apparently casual injury to the back bone a year or two before and a light case of tonsillitis said by physicians to have possibly caused the disease.
Cleva Iolene is survived by her sorrowing parents, four brothers, Lionel, Lowell, Eldon and Russell and one sister, Oleta, beside other relatives and a host of friends.
The funeral service will be held at the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, and this will be preceded by a short service at the home.
Vol. LIV, No. 187, p. 1
Monday, March 17, 1930
IOLENE EWING DEAD
Popular Great Bend Girl Succumbs to Long Illness
The long but unavailing fight which Miss Iolene Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ewing of this city had made to recover from the illness of which she had been suffering the past six months ended this morning when death came suddenly while she slept.
Though the doctors had pronounced the disease incurable, and the parents and friends were prepared for the worst, Miss Iolene to the very last clung to the determination that she was going to recover and almost her last conscious words a few days ago were when she called her father to her bedside and said, "Daddy, I think I am going to get well."
She was a sweet and attractive girl, 21 years of age, and one of the most popular of Great Bend's young people. A graduate of Great Bend high school, she went to the University of Kansas where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and after attending college for two years undertook to teach school in this county for one term, at district No. 14, north of town. It was while she was teaching that she first became ill.
Not only a musician and active in social activities she also excelled in her studies and made scholastic records of merit but was also in student popularity contests. She belonged to the Methodist church in this city and took part in its services.
The disease which caused her death was myelitis, a disease of the spinal cord which resulted in a complication of things that steadily wore away her strength but in which she showed great vitality. Attacking her first with a partial paralysis of the hips this condition continued to the feet and gradually extended upward. She was taken to the hospital where she received constant medical attention and was there for five months under the constant care of physicians and specialists, who were called here in an attempt to effect a cure. She was almost continually in pain, and though the attending physicians could offer no hope of recovery she maintained firmly that she would.
Among the things she cherished most were the constant remembrances of her many boy and girl friends, who thought they could not visit her often, sent her letters and flowers and she kept a record of every remembrance with the intention of replying to it when she got better. Several times during her long illness, the physicians said the end was near, but she would apparently become stronger though she gradually lost in weight and strength.
Her case is the only one of its kind in the records of the local hospital and attracted the attention of many physicians and specialists. An apparently casual injury to the back bone a year or two before and a light case of tonsillitis said by physicians to have possibly caused the disease.
Cleva Iolene is survived by her sorrowing parents, four brothers, Lionel, Lowell, Eldon and Russell and one sister, Oleta, beside other relatives and a host of friends.
The funeral service will be held at the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, and this will be preceded by a short service at the home.
Great Bend Tribune
Vol. LIV, No. 187, p. 1
Monday, March 17, 1930
IOLENE EWING DEAD
Popular Great Bend Girl Succumbs to Long Illness
The long but unavailing fight which Miss Iolene Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ewing of this city had made to recover from the illness of which she had been suffering the past six months ended this morning when death came suddenly while she slept.
Though the doctors had pronounced the disease incurable, and the parents and friends were prepared for the worst, Miss Iolene to the very last clung to the determination that she was going to recover and almost her last conscious words a few days ago were when she called her father to her bedside and said, "Daddy, I think I am going to get well."
She was a sweet and attractive girl, 21 years of age, and one of the most popular of Great Bend's young people. A graduate of Great Bend high school, she went to the University of Kansas where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and after attending college for two years undertook to teach school in this county for one term, at district No. 14, north of town. It was while she was teaching that she first became ill.
Not only a musician and active in social activities she also excelled in her studies and made scholastic records of merit but was also in student popularity contests. She belonged to the Methodist church in this city and took part in its services.
The disease which caused her death was myelitis, a disease of the spinal cord which resulted in a complication of things that steadily wore away her strength but in which she showed great vitality. Attacking her first with a partial paralysis of the hips this condition continued to the feet and gradually extended upward. She was taken to the hospital where she received constant medical attention and was there for five months under the constant care of physicians and specialists, who were called here in an attempt to effect a cure. She was almost continually in pain, and though the attending physicians could offer no hope of recovery she maintained firmly that she would.
Among the things she cherished most were the constant remembrances of her many boy and girl friends, who thought they could not visit her often, sent her letters and flowers and she kept a record of every remembrance with the intention of replying to it when she got better. Several times during her long illness, the physicians said the end was near, but she would apparently become stronger though she gradually lost in weight and strength.
Her case is the only one of its kind in the records of the local hospital and attracted the attention of many physicians and specialists. An apparently casual injury to the back bone a year or two before and a light case of tonsillitis said by physicians to have possibly caused the disease.
Cleva Iolene is survived by her sorrowing parents, four brothers, Lionel, Lowell, Eldon and Russell and one sister, Oleta, beside other relatives and a host of friends.
The funeral service will be held at the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, and this will be preceded by a short service at the home.
Vol. LIV, No. 187, p. 1
Monday, March 17, 1930
IOLENE EWING DEAD
Popular Great Bend Girl Succumbs to Long Illness
The long but unavailing fight which Miss Iolene Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ewing of this city had made to recover from the illness of which she had been suffering the past six months ended this morning when death came suddenly while she slept.
Though the doctors had pronounced the disease incurable, and the parents and friends were prepared for the worst, Miss Iolene to the very last clung to the determination that she was going to recover and almost her last conscious words a few days ago were when she called her father to her bedside and said, "Daddy, I think I am going to get well."
She was a sweet and attractive girl, 21 years of age, and one of the most popular of Great Bend's young people. A graduate of Great Bend high school, she went to the University of Kansas where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and after attending college for two years undertook to teach school in this county for one term, at district No. 14, north of town. It was while she was teaching that she first became ill.
Not only a musician and active in social activities she also excelled in her studies and made scholastic records of merit but was also in student popularity contests. She belonged to the Methodist church in this city and took part in its services.
The disease which caused her death was myelitis, a disease of the spinal cord which resulted in a complication of things that steadily wore away her strength but in which she showed great vitality. Attacking her first with a partial paralysis of the hips this condition continued to the feet and gradually extended upward. She was taken to the hospital where she received constant medical attention and was there for five months under the constant care of physicians and specialists, who were called here in an attempt to effect a cure. She was almost continually in pain, and though the attending physicians could offer no hope of recovery she maintained firmly that she would.
Among the things she cherished most were the constant remembrances of her many boy and girl friends, who thought they could not visit her often, sent her letters and flowers and she kept a record of every remembrance with the intention of replying to it when she got better. Several times during her long illness, the physicians said the end was near, but she would apparently become stronger though she gradually lost in weight and strength.
Her case is the only one of its kind in the records of the local hospital and attracted the attention of many physicians and specialists. An apparently casual injury to the back bone a year or two before and a light case of tonsillitis said by physicians to have possibly caused the disease.
Cleva Iolene is survived by her sorrowing parents, four brothers, Lionel, Lowell, Eldon and Russell and one sister, Oleta, beside other relatives and a host of friends.
The funeral service will be held at the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, and this will be preceded by a short service at the home.
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