Verna Andrews 1883-1905

ANDREWS, BURGESS, HOLMES, DEAN, BUNDY

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 8/8/2017 at 17:12:10

8 June 1905 - The Clarence Sun

Verna Ophelia Burgess Andrews was born October 30th, 1883, and died May 20th, 1905, aged 21 years, 7 months and 10 days. She was the daughter of James and Lavina Burgess. She leaves three brothers, Benj. E. and Milan E. of Stanwood, Iowa, and Arthur J. of Chicago, Ill., and four sisters, Mrs. Wright Holmes, Mrs. Blanche Dean and Miss Etta Burgess of De Kalb, Ill., and Mrs. Frank Bundy of Los Angeles, California.

She was married to John S. Andrews of Rock Falls, Ill., son of Attorney Frank Andrews, October 14, 1903, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Wright Holmes, of De Kalb, where a pretty wedding was solemnized. They went off on a wedding trip to the west and immediately after went to Chicago where a beautifully furnished home awaited them. Theirs was an ideal married life.

She was taken with tuberculosis the lungs in August, 1904, but the nature of her illness was not known until six months ago when her Chicago physician advised her to go to Colorado. She left for Colorado Springs on April 1, where her sisters, Etta Burgess and Blanche Dean had been residing since Dec. 1, 1904. All that medical skill and loving hands could do was done but the tired and weakened body could not resist that dread disease and on Sunday she was taken worse. Her husband in Chicago was telegraphed for but did not arrive until two hours after her death. The prostrated husband was inconsolable. About seven o'clock in the evening she began sinking but remained conscious till the last, and while she lay in the arms of her sisters Etta she raised up and said "Good-bye girls, I am going over," and passed away.

Her husband and two sisters started with her remains on the 31st for the home of her childhood, Clarence, Iowa.

The funeral services were held in the Methodist church Friday afternoon at 2:30. The sermon was preached by the pastor, M. J. Locke. The flowers were beautiful. At the conclusion of the services she was laid to rest in the family lot beside her father and mother. Her many friends sorrowed with the relatives over her early death.

She was a beautiful young woman, honorable, kind and of sweet disposition and all who knew her loved and respected her.