The whole county grieves with Judge and Mrs. Lou Cruse in the death of the beloved daughter, Miss Maryell, aged 21 years. A graduate of the 1935-1936 class of Woodville High School, she entered Sam Houston State Teachers College. Part of her second year she remained at home because of the poor health of her mother. Some months after returning to Huntsville she developed intermittent fever but thought little of it and was in the hospital a short while before her parents were notified. She came on home but soon it was decided that it might be serious, and she was carried to specialists. For many months she had been in John Seally Hospital in Galveston and everything that science and medicine could do was tried but to no avail and on Thursday night the fight ended. It was especially heartbreaking to her friends and loved on es as she had been so brave, cheerful and ever ready to cooperate and try anything that was proposed by the physicians. She was loved by the nurses and all who came in contact with her at the hospital and every individual there and here was praying for her recovery. A member of the Baptist church, she was a leader in her home community among the young people who loved and admired her. The Booster family had a big place in their hearts for Maryell for she has sent in the news from her home community for the past eight years whenever she was there. The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the old Hard Shell Cemetery not far from the Cruse home, with the Oakley-Metcalf in charge. The Rev's Ernest Martin, Tom Campbell, and J. C. Boyd speaking words of comfort to the heart broken family. A great crowd of friends were gathered and the floral offering was lavish and beautiful. Pallbearers were school friends and relatives, Clyde Cruse, Jr., Elmer Ray Oats, Woodrow Cruse, Jack Pool, Floyd Cruse, and Elvin Davis. Judge and Mrs. Cruse and the sisters and brothers, Patsy Jean, and Ruby Lou, and Rex of Devers, Bob Frank of Tyler, and Carl of Woodville have the sincere sympathy of fall who know them.

Tyler County Booster

6/13/1940