Albee, Ruth 1893-1907

ALBEE

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 2/23/2005 at 12:27:39

Sorrowing parents, sisters, a brother and relatives and many friends mourn today the loss of Ruth Albee, whose death occurred this morning abut two o’clock. She was taken sick last Friday night of diphtheria, but until late yesterday afternoon they had every reason to think, although the dear little patient was very weak, that she would recover. The immediate cause of death was paralysis of the heart.

Ruth was in school all last week writing the term examinations and would have been promoted from the seventh grade A class to the eighth grade B class had she returned.

She was bright, active and studious, and of a sweet affectionate disposition, which endeared her so much to all the members of her home and to those who were her friends. Thoughtful of others comfort and welfare, only a week ago today, when she was suffering with the first stages of the throat trouble which developed later, Ruth put her arms around her father’s neck and urged him to let her do something for him, because she knew he was feeling so badly.

Last July she celebrated her thirteenth birthday. She attended the Congregational Sunday school where she was a member of Miss Edith Parvin’s class.

Tomorrow morning the body will be taken quietly to the cemetery at 10 o’clock and laid to rest.

Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Albee, there are in the immediate family her sisters, Mildred, Cecil and Leona, and her brother, Raymond. ~ The Newton Daily News, Friday, February 8, 1907, Page 1, Column 4