HUGHES, Wave Rowley 1896-1913

ROWLEY, HUGHES

Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 10/13/2016 at 15:37:29

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
IN UNTIMELY DEATH

Miss Wave Rowley Hughes Dies
at Age of 17. Deeply Loved
and Mourned.

Wave Rowley Hughes was born in Chickasaw, Iowa, July 16, 1896, and died September 22, 1913, at the age of 17 years, 2 months and 6 days.

When about five years old, her parents moved to Elma, where with her brother, Darold, she started to school. It was at this place that her fiends gave her the name of "Little Mother" on account of her care and thought of her brothers. This consideration for others, together with her ambition, has been the chief characteristics of Wave's life.

It was while living in Elma that one of the childish tragedies of her life occurred. Her grandfather Rowley whom she loved so dearly, passed away, and while she mourned his death, she was the one to cheer and comfort her loved ones.

When she was about seven years old, the family movoed back to Chickasaw, where they have since resided, and where Wave counted her friends by the score.

While Wave has always been of a light-hearted, sunny disposition, there has been an undercurrent of seriousness and of the religions in her makeup. Hardly a night passed but what she would read her Bible before retiring.

On March 16, 1912, she and several of her friends were baptized at Nashua, and on April 7, 1912, she united with the Baptist church at Chickasaw. Last June she finished the school at Chickasaw, and at the beginning of this school year she and her brother, Darold, who have kept together in their school work all their lives, started to high school at Ionia. She left school Friday night apparently in the best of health. For the past two years she has been afflicted with diabetes, and Sunday morning she was suddenly taken ill and her friends knew that the end was a matter of only a few hours. She passed away at 8:30 Monday evening.

Her untimely death has cast a gloom over not only the home, but the entire community. Her sweet young life was beyond reproach, and we cannot but ask why?

She died as she had lived -- patient, uncomplaining and beloved by all who knew her. The life she lived cannot end at the grave, but must continue as a high and worthy example to us all.

Wave is survived by her mother and father, two brothers, Darold and Neil and scores of relatives and friends whose hearts are crushed over this affliction. We mingle our tears with those of her loved ones and her many friends and pray for them for God's help and strength in their sorrow.

Wave's friends, the Misses Helen Ackley, Hulda Case, Maude, Meta, Cora and Edna Carey, dressed in white acted as pall bearers. The schoola at Ionia and Chickasaw were dismissed for the service. Beautiful floral offerings were sent by the Royal Neighbors, M. W. A., B.Y.P.U., Ionia High School, Chickasaw school, besides the individual floral offerings.

Published 1 OCT 1013

(Credit: pchristensen13@mchsi.com
October 13, 2016]