Hickman, Eleanor 1906-1920

HICKMAN

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 8/29/2004 at 18:01:12

Funeral For Eleanor Hickman Held Today

On Saturday morning at 11 o’clock funeral services were held for Eleanor Hickman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.C.C. Hickman, at the parent’s home on Greencastle Avenue. The funeral was very short and simple with only near relatives and a few friends present as the mother is herself ill, and any change in her quiet life was unadvisable.

A number of floral offerings were sent to the sorrowing family as an expression of sympathy in the bereavement. The father who is a retired Presbyterian minister, read the Scripture reading and offered prayer and the little body, that had never been free from disease in life, was laid to rest.

The coffin was carried by her three older brothers, Gordon, Maurice and Mark Hickman and a cousin, Everett Jackson.

Mr. and Mrs. Hickman were both reared in Newton and are known to many people here, although when Mr. Hickman took up his work in the ministry he was sent to western churches to do pioneer work and he has only returned here to live since last March.

Eleanor was born July 1, 1906, at Meridian, Idaho. She has always been unable to walk and after reaching the age of two and a half years lost the power of speech. Her parents later moved to Utah and then to Oregon, and then in March 1, 1920, came to their present home.

The child was in her usual state of health the day before her death and Mr. and Mrs. Hickman were in Jefferson, Iowa, visiting relatives when a slight congestion settled on her lungs and the weak little body was unable to combat the effects and she passed away in a few hours, before father or mother could be summoned.

Besides her parents and the three older brothers mentioned above, she leaves one sister and two brothers younger than she, Irene and Paul and Theodore.

Burial was made in the Newton cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa, December 18, 1920.