Viola Mae Barber, 19, died Sunday night at 11 o’clock in the Methodist Hospital in Omaha after illness of only a few hours. She was in her usual good health when she retired Saturday evening.
Sunday morning at 6 o’clock Miss Barber arose at her home where she kept house for her father, Ben Barber and family and was preparing to go to the elms Hotel where she has been employed, but was taken suddenly ill She called her father telling him she was suffering with cramps and aches and a physician was called at once.
An examination revealed the fact that she had no pulse and was in a a serious condition. She had previously had two or three attacks of appendicitis. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Omaha in the F. E. Snow car, leaving Villisca at 8:10 a.m. Sunday and arriving at the hospital two hours and ten minutes later, accompanied by her father, Mr. and MRs. Snow and Dr. J. C. Cooper. Her condition was such, however, that she could not be operated on, though she responded somewhat to treatment. About 9:30 o’clock that evening she grew weaker and lost consciousness, never rallying before her death an hour and a half later.
Viola Mae Barber was born in Villisca on June 15, 1907. She attended the Sunday School at the Methodist Church and was graduated from the Villisca High School in 1925. Besides his father, she leaves two brothers and two sisters. They are Kenneth, Mildred, May, and Robert. She was preceded by her mother in March 1921.
Her body arrived in Villisca Monday evening on NO. 14 and was taken to the Wolfe Funeral Home to await the funeral services which was held there at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Lawton. The singing was by Mrs. F. E. Shane and Mrs. S. M. Jolliffe, with Miss Alice newton at the piano and the pall bearers were S. C. Ashmore, Frank Johnson, Chas. Foster, Chas Poston, Harrison Kelso, and Frank Comley. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the mother of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, December 3, 1926, page 1 & 6
Sunday morning at 6 o’clock Miss Barber arose at her home where she kept house for her father, Ben Barber and family and was preparing to go to the elms Hotel where she has been employed, but was taken suddenly ill She called her father telling him she was suffering with cramps and aches and a physician was called at once.
An examination revealed the fact that she had no pulse and was in a a serious condition. She had previously had two or three attacks of appendicitis. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Omaha in the F. E. Snow car, leaving Villisca at 8:10 a.m. Sunday and arriving at the hospital two hours and ten minutes later, accompanied by her father, Mr. and MRs. Snow and Dr. J. C. Cooper. Her condition was such, however, that she could not be operated on, though she responded somewhat to treatment. About 9:30 o’clock that evening she grew weaker and lost consciousness, never rallying before her death an hour and a half later.
Viola Mae Barber was born in Villisca on June 15, 1907. She attended the Sunday School at the Methodist Church and was graduated from the Villisca High School in 1925. Besides his father, she leaves two brothers and two sisters. They are Kenneth, Mildred, May, and Robert. She was preceded by her mother in March 1921.
Her body arrived in Villisca Monday evening on NO. 14 and was taken to the Wolfe Funeral Home to await the funeral services which was held there at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Lawton. The singing was by Mrs. F. E. Shane and Mrs. S. M. Jolliffe, with Miss Alice newton at the piano and the pall bearers were S. C. Ashmore, Frank Johnson, Chas. Foster, Chas Poston, Harrison Kelso, and Frank Comley. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the mother of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, December 3, 1926, page 1 & 6
Viola Mae Barber, 19, died Sunday night at 11 o’clock in the Methodist Hospital in Omaha after illness of only a few hours. She was in her usual good health when she retired Saturday evening.
Sunday morning at 6 o’clock Miss Barber arose at her home where she kept house for her father, Ben Barber and family and was preparing to go to the elms Hotel where she has been employed, but was taken suddenly ill She called her father telling him she was suffering with cramps and aches and a physician was called at once.
An examination revealed the fact that she had no pulse and was in a a serious condition. She had previously had two or three attacks of appendicitis. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Omaha in the F. E. Snow car, leaving Villisca at 8:10 a.m. Sunday and arriving at the hospital two hours and ten minutes later, accompanied by her father, Mr. and MRs. Snow and Dr. J. C. Cooper. Her condition was such, however, that she could not be operated on, though she responded somewhat to treatment. About 9:30 o’clock that evening she grew weaker and lost consciousness, never rallying before her death an hour and a half later.
Viola Mae Barber was born in Villisca on June 15, 1907. She attended the Sunday School at the Methodist Church and was graduated from the Villisca High School in 1925. Besides his father, she leaves two brothers and two sisters. They are Kenneth, Mildred, May, and Robert. She was preceded by her mother in March 1921.
Her body arrived in Villisca Monday evening on NO. 14 and was taken to the Wolfe Funeral Home to await the funeral services which was held there at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Lawton. The singing was by Mrs. F. E. Shane and Mrs. S. M. Jolliffe, with Miss Alice newton at the piano and the pall bearers were S. C. Ashmore, Frank Johnson, Chas. Foster, Chas Poston, Harrison Kelso, and Frank Comley. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the mother of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, December 3, 1926, page 1 & 6
Sunday morning at 6 o’clock Miss Barber arose at her home where she kept house for her father, Ben Barber and family and was preparing to go to the elms Hotel where she has been employed, but was taken suddenly ill She called her father telling him she was suffering with cramps and aches and a physician was called at once.
An examination revealed the fact that she had no pulse and was in a a serious condition. She had previously had two or three attacks of appendicitis. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Omaha in the F. E. Snow car, leaving Villisca at 8:10 a.m. Sunday and arriving at the hospital two hours and ten minutes later, accompanied by her father, Mr. and MRs. Snow and Dr. J. C. Cooper. Her condition was such, however, that she could not be operated on, though she responded somewhat to treatment. About 9:30 o’clock that evening she grew weaker and lost consciousness, never rallying before her death an hour and a half later.
Viola Mae Barber was born in Villisca on June 15, 1907. She attended the Sunday School at the Methodist Church and was graduated from the Villisca High School in 1925. Besides his father, she leaves two brothers and two sisters. They are Kenneth, Mildred, May, and Robert. She was preceded by her mother in March 1921.
Her body arrived in Villisca Monday evening on NO. 14 and was taken to the Wolfe Funeral Home to await the funeral services which was held there at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Lawton. The singing was by Mrs. F. E. Shane and Mrs. S. M. Jolliffe, with Miss Alice newton at the piano and the pall bearers were S. C. Ashmore, Frank Johnson, Chas. Foster, Chas Poston, Harrison Kelso, and Frank Comley. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the mother of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, December 3, 1926, page 1 & 6
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