from The Out Post, of Twenty-nine Palms:
WENDELL KERR LAID TO REST
Hesitantly, four young hands grasped the silver handles of a small white casket; Carefully, four boys, scarcely able to realize the sadness of their task, carried the body of their playmate to its place of honor in the school room from which he had so recently left.
In a setting prepared from native cedar and juniper which grew on the surrounding hills, overlooked by the Flag of our Country on the wall above, the casket lay, covered with the floral offerings of loving friends, while words of comfort to the sorrowing ones were read from the Bible, old, old source of consolation.
At a pause in the services, a door was opened, and the wind blew strong for an instant. No sound was heard other than the soft singing of the women's choir in a far corner of the room.
AS if prearranged, the Flag was caught in the wind, lifted from the wall, and fell draped across the little white casket, with the blue field low on one side. Could that be a symbol that our Nation grieves over the passing of one of our little ones? And that in all of its pride and strength, it must bow to Death?
Wendell Edwin Kerr, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Kerr, of Yucca Valley, was taken by death on the morning of November first.
Funeral services at the Yucca Valley school house were conducted by O. B. Stonecipher, of Twenty Nine Palms, and burial was in Banning, on November third.
The Out Post joins the many friends of the bereaved family in extending sincere sympathies.
"This obituary is true in all details, but has omitted the fact that when the flag draped itself over the casket, Mr. Stonecipher would have removed it, but as it was just what we [Mr. Kerr and I] had wanted, I shook my head at him and made a motion to leave it, which he did." Mrs. Abbie C. Kerr
WENDELL KERR LAID TO REST
Hesitantly, four young hands grasped the silver handles of a small white casket; Carefully, four boys, scarcely able to realize the sadness of their task, carried the body of their playmate to its place of honor in the school room from which he had so recently left.
In a setting prepared from native cedar and juniper which grew on the surrounding hills, overlooked by the Flag of our Country on the wall above, the casket lay, covered with the floral offerings of loving friends, while words of comfort to the sorrowing ones were read from the Bible, old, old source of consolation.
At a pause in the services, a door was opened, and the wind blew strong for an instant. No sound was heard other than the soft singing of the women's choir in a far corner of the room.
AS if prearranged, the Flag was caught in the wind, lifted from the wall, and fell draped across the little white casket, with the blue field low on one side. Could that be a symbol that our Nation grieves over the passing of one of our little ones? And that in all of its pride and strength, it must bow to Death?
Wendell Edwin Kerr, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Kerr, of Yucca Valley, was taken by death on the morning of November first.
Funeral services at the Yucca Valley school house were conducted by O. B. Stonecipher, of Twenty Nine Palms, and burial was in Banning, on November third.
The Out Post joins the many friends of the bereaved family in extending sincere sympathies.
"This obituary is true in all details, but has omitted the fact that when the flag draped itself over the casket, Mr. Stonecipher would have removed it, but as it was just what we [Mr. Kerr and I] had wanted, I shook my head at him and made a motion to leave it, which he did." Mrs. Abbie C. Kerr
from The Out Post, of Twenty-nine Palms:
WENDELL KERR LAID TO REST
Hesitantly, four young hands grasped the silver handles of a small white casket; Carefully, four boys, scarcely able to realize the sadness of their task, carried the body of their playmate to its place of honor in the school room from which he had so recently left.
In a setting prepared from native cedar and juniper which grew on the surrounding hills, overlooked by the Flag of our Country on the wall above, the casket lay, covered with the floral offerings of loving friends, while words of comfort to the sorrowing ones were read from the Bible, old, old source of consolation.
At a pause in the services, a door was opened, and the wind blew strong for an instant. No sound was heard other than the soft singing of the women's choir in a far corner of the room.
AS if prearranged, the Flag was caught in the wind, lifted from the wall, and fell draped across the little white casket, with the blue field low on one side. Could that be a symbol that our Nation grieves over the passing of one of our little ones? And that in all of its pride and strength, it must bow to Death?
Wendell Edwin Kerr, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Kerr, of Yucca Valley, was taken by death on the morning of November first.
Funeral services at the Yucca Valley school house were conducted by O. B. Stonecipher, of Twenty Nine Palms, and burial was in Banning, on November third.
The Out Post joins the many friends of the bereaved family in extending sincere sympathies.
"This obituary is true in all details, but has omitted the fact that when the flag draped itself over the casket, Mr. Stonecipher would have removed it, but as it was just what we [Mr. Kerr and I] had wanted, I shook my head at him and made a motion to leave it, which he did." Mrs. Abbie C. Kerr
WENDELL KERR LAID TO REST
Hesitantly, four young hands grasped the silver handles of a small white casket; Carefully, four boys, scarcely able to realize the sadness of their task, carried the body of their playmate to its place of honor in the school room from which he had so recently left.
In a setting prepared from native cedar and juniper which grew on the surrounding hills, overlooked by the Flag of our Country on the wall above, the casket lay, covered with the floral offerings of loving friends, while words of comfort to the sorrowing ones were read from the Bible, old, old source of consolation.
At a pause in the services, a door was opened, and the wind blew strong for an instant. No sound was heard other than the soft singing of the women's choir in a far corner of the room.
AS if prearranged, the Flag was caught in the wind, lifted from the wall, and fell draped across the little white casket, with the blue field low on one side. Could that be a symbol that our Nation grieves over the passing of one of our little ones? And that in all of its pride and strength, it must bow to Death?
Wendell Edwin Kerr, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Kerr, of Yucca Valley, was taken by death on the morning of November first.
Funeral services at the Yucca Valley school house were conducted by O. B. Stonecipher, of Twenty Nine Palms, and burial was in Banning, on November third.
The Out Post joins the many friends of the bereaved family in extending sincere sympathies.
"This obituary is true in all details, but has omitted the fact that when the flag draped itself over the casket, Mr. Stonecipher would have removed it, but as it was just what we [Mr. Kerr and I] had wanted, I shook my head at him and made a motion to leave it, which he did." Mrs. Abbie C. Kerr
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