Roy Burgin, 1887-1910

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Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/4/2011 at 11:46:32

Last week we mentioned the death of Roy Burgin.
He was born May 23, 1887 and died at Twin Falls, Idaho, Dec. 30, 1910. He graduated at the Spencer High School in 1907 and took one year at Ames. He was sick less than two weeks. Trouble began with whooping cough, followed with typhoid, which was very severe and soon terminated fatally. The body arrived Wednesday morning and a short funeral service was held at the home of his mother, Mrs. L.C. Burgin, conducted by Rev. J.O. Thrush. After which interment was made in Riverside cemetery.

He was a promising boy; he had a good face. We were pleased with his appearance.

It would have been desirable for him to die at home. But like many others he heard the call and felt the magnetism of the great west and followed his sister Mrs. Estling to Idaho, where stricken with decease he rapidly failed and suddenly life went out over there in sight of the great mountains and far over toward the sunset wave. If one could not die at home it might be some compensation to die in full view of God's great mountains. We are thinking of his mother, her loss, her sorrow and loneliness. May she be able in this hour of darkness and heart ache to lean for comfort and support on strong arm of a Divine friend, and remember that "beyond the cloud, the sun is still shining."

The News extends sympathy to the mother and sisters.

Source: The Spencer News, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; January 10, 1911.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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