Ardith Mayme Wetrich (1920)

WETRICH

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 10/9/2007 at 19:21:07

Earlham Library Collection
July 1920

Monday noon; July 26, 1920, Mayme Ardeth Wetrich passed on to that Heavenly Home, after an illness of three weeks. Baby Wetrich is gone to be with Jesus in Paradise and where her little brother Wayne is, who slipped off to Heaven July 18, 1920.

There had been some anxious hearts for Baby Ardeth. About the time of the departure of her brother Wayne, Baby Ardeth seemed to grow better, but the sweet smile and rosy cheeks seemed to be lacking and the little Babe seemed to lapse into severe pains and became very restless and nervous the Thursday and Friday before her death, and from this time on seemed to grow worse until the pain was so acute that God looked down in His great love and tender mercy and called Ardeth home. Without one struggle she fell asleep in the arms of Jesus.

Baby Ardeth was born on Sept. 17, 1919 into the home of Rube A. and Mayme Wetrich and passed from this life at the age of 10 months and 8 days, at noon July 26, 1920 her little spirit taking its flight to Him who doeth all things well.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 4, 1920

ARDETTE WETRICH

A very large audience gathered at the Penn Center M. E. church, Wednesday afternoon, July 28, to pay their last respects to Little Ardette Wetrich, the daughter of Rube A. and Mayme Wetrich.

The Penn Center M. E. church Sunbeam choir of little girls, aged 9 to 15 years, sang "Gathering Jewels for His Crown." Rev. B. H. Morse, the pastor, delivered a splendid gospel sermon from the text Mark 10:15, "Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." The Penn Center M. E. quartette sang two beautiful hymns, "Looking This Way," and at the close, "Some Day We'll Understand."

The pall bearers were Lulu and Rachel Thrailkill, Fern Lenocker and Myrtle Boyle. Six little girls acted as flower maids: Ilah Hunter, Beulah Boyle, Alice Thrailkill, Iris Imboden, Edith Hicks and Ruth Boyle.

Interment was made in Penn Center cemetery, Monday noon, July 26, Mayme Ardette Wetrich passed on to that heavenly home, after an illness of three weeks. Baby Werich is gone to be with Jesus in Paradise, where her little brother, Wayne, is, who passed away July 18. Baby Wetrich was born on Sept. 17, 1919, into the home of Rube A. and Mayme Wetrich and passed from this life at the age of ten months and eight days. Besides her parents, little Ardette leaves a little brother, Gail, six years of age, and a little sister, Regina, three years of age; her grandparents, who loved her as their own, together with a host of loving relatives and friends, who mourn the death of this much loved child.
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Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, August 4, 1920
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Earlham

On Monday of last week occurred the death of the ten months old baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wetrich. Only eight days previous the angel of death had visited this home, taking the 11 year old son, Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Wetrich have the sympathy of their friends in their double bereavement.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, July 29, 1920

Coming only eight days after the death of the brother Wayne Wetrich and freighted with all the sorrow for the bereaved parents that one could possibly imagine from a loss so bitter, and shortly repeated came the death of baby Mamie Ardeth Wetrich Monday. The little one came to gladden this home on September 17, 1919 and was thus ten months and nine days old when death called her tiny soul out alone into the great unknown of eternity. Those who are left may have faith in the Infinite kindness which notes “even the sparrow’s fall” but this cannot temper the crushing sorrow of the last farewell or still the heartache that comes in the wake of parental love. Mr. and Mrs. Wetrich will have the most profound sympathy of the entire community in their double bereavement. Cholera infantum was the cause of the baby’s death.

Funeral services were held at Penn Center Church at two p.m. Wednesday and interment was at the same place.
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Transcriber's note: Transcribed as published, name "Ardith" comes from gravestone.

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