George Willis Pace (1928)

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Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/10/2004 at 19:52:01

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
April 15, 1928

George Pace, the nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Pace, former residents of the Patterson neighborhood, died from the effects of an automobile accident at his home in Osceola, Friday, March 29. The little fellow, with several neighbor children and two of his brothers, was walking to school, when a truck driven by M. R. Hatfield overtook them. It struck George and another child. George was unconscious for thirty hours, but the other child is recovering. Funeral services were held at the home near Osceola, Sunday, and the body was taken to the Patterson cemetery, where additional services were held. The child was a cousin of Mrs. Earle Null and Mrs. J. Wyman Wilson of Winterset.
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The Osceola Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, April 5, 1928
Page 10, Column 4

George Willis, son of W. W. and Lucy B. Pace, was born December 10, 1918, near Truro, Iowa. Here he lived but a very short time when his parents moved to Patterson where they lived until two years ago when he with the family moved to Woodburn where they lived one year. One year ago they moved to the present home and here he continued to enjoy the many experiences of childhood.

Although his days were few they were filled with sunshine and his merry laughter had in it the warmth and brightness of springtime. Untainted by the unwholesome elements of life he held up before all the challenge of life’s simplicity and purity.

Because of an injury received Wednesday morning he closed his eyes in the peaceful sleep of death Thursday evening, March 29, 1928, having attained unto the tender age of nine years, three months and nineteen days. He leaves to mourn him his father and mother, three brothers, Winston W., Robert T., and Morris, and two sisters, Florence Ruth and Mary Etta, a grandmother, Mrs. Nancy J. Pace, of Brownville, Indiana, besides many other relatives and sympathetic friends.

Funeral services were conducted from the Church of Christ Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock by the Rev. John W. McKee. Those furnishing the music were Misses Truth Bumbarger and Leona Morrow with Mrs. Corda Stacey at the piano. Interment was made in Patterson cemetery. The pallbearers were Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hague and Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Walker, all of Des Moines.

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