Morris Leroy Price (1933)
PRICE, WYNKOOP
Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 12/30/2005 at 16:42:24
Earlham Library Obituaries
January 1933
Earlham, IowaObituaries
Morris Leroy Price
Morris Leroy Price, eldest son of Roy and Pearl Price, was born March 6, 1912, in Madison County, Iowa, and departed this life Jan. 30, 1933, at the Hospital at Woodward, Iowa, aged 20 years, 10 months and 24 days.
Morris attended the Earlham public schools until he had passed the eigth grade, and was in the first year of high school, when the family removed to a farm in the De Soto Consolidated District where he continued his school work.
About this time he was stricken with a malady, which in spite of all that loving friends and medical skill could do, unfitted him to take his part in the activities of life.
On account of this trouble, he was unable to complete the last year of his high school work.
Morris was a bright, keen energetic boy, being an exemplary student all through his school life.
While not identified with any church, during the past two years Morris has given testimony after testimony of his acceptance of Christ as his personal Savior. In his very last letter home he makes this clear statement, "I want to tell you the (rest of the sentence is missing)
________________________Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, February 2, 1933Morris Leroy Price, eldest son of Roy and Pearl Price, was born March 6, 1912 in Madison County, Iowa, and departed this life Jan. 30, 1933, at the Hospital at Woodward, Iowa, aged 20 years, 10 months and 24 days.
Morris attended the Earlham public schools until he had passed the eighth grade, and was in the first year of high school, when the family removed to a farm in the De Soto Consolidated District where he continued his school work.
About this time he was stricken with a malady, which in spite of all that loving friends and medical skill could do, unfitted him to take his part in the activities of life.
On account of this trouble, he was unable to complete the last year of his high school work.
Morris was a bright, keen, energetic boy, being an exemplary student all through his school life.
While not identified with any church, during the past two years Morris has given testimony after testimony of his acceptance of Christ as his personal Savior. In his very last letter home he makes this clear statement: “I want to tell you, the blessed Lord has been good to me and I hope He continues His goodness to me, and I know He will if I keep up my praying and keep reading my blessed Bible, which I intend to do.”
He is survived by his father and mother, two sisters, Mildred and Eileen, three brothers, Millard, Robert and Herbert, his aged grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Price, his grandmother, Mary J. Wynkoop, besides a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Friends Church in Earlham with Rev. Millard Jones officiating, assisted by Rev. B. W. McEldowney. Interment was in Earlham Cemetery.
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