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Brown, Flora Lucille died 1920

BROWN, CORWIN

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/23/2022 at 12:09:35

Elkader Register, Thur., 25 Mar. 1920.

Flora Lucille Corwin was born in Chicago, Ill., March 2, 1910. When she was twenty months old her mother was called to her Eternal Home.

Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Brown of Elkader, having lost little girls of their own and still having a longing in their hearts for the childish prattle, the sound of tiny footsteps, and baby arms about their necks, they saw in baby Flora a hope of giving her what she had lost, and making happier their own lives by her presence in their home.

They took her as their own child, giving her legal adoption and with it, all the love and tender care that any child could receive from its parents.

Flora showed much talent in music, and cultivation of this _____was already begun by piano _________. Her parents had also planned ___ her a college education. Flora ______ promise of a beautiful life in _______. She was kind and generous ______ a fault, always giving of her stor__ good things to others. She was never as happy as when planning and pu______ aside some little token for her br____ Dougel", as she always called him.

She was in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown nearly nine y____ when the good parents were aga__ _____ to give up their Treasure.

(Note: This obit was very long and very broken up and offered no further information of Genealogy value. It also had a very long poem in it. Except for the following the remainder of this obit was left uncopied.)

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the home and in the Congregational church with Rev. C. H. Franke officiating. Interment was made in the East Side cemetery.

(A card of Thanks was signed: Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Brown, and Douglas.)


 

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