Thelma M. Sarvis (1909-1915)

SARVIS

Posted By: Debra Scott Hierlmeier (email)
Date: 11/7/2008 at 16:26:05

Avoca Baby Girl Dies at Hospital
Little Thelma Maria Sarvis, six years old, dies after a night operation.

COULD NOT SAVE HER LIFE

Little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry (Josephine Gross) Sarvis Lived Only Day and Half After Being Brought to the Hospital in Bluffs.

Little Thelma Sarvis, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sarvis of Avoca, died at Mercy hospital Friday morning about 11 o’clock, a day and a half after she had been brought to this city for an emergency operation in the hope of saving her life. She was six years old last May.
She developed a bad case of appendicitis this week, and her parents brought her to Mercy hospital Wednesday night, in the hope that an emergency operation would save her life. It was found on operating, however, that the appendix was ruptured, and nothing that could be done sufficed to save her.

The body was removed to Woodring’s undertaking parlors, and will be taken back to the home at Avoca at once, the funeral burial taking place there.

“The Plucking of a Bud”

Thelma Maria Sarvis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sarvis, was born at Bonesteel, South Dakota, May 4, 1909, and passed to her heavenly home September 10th, 1915, aged six years, four months, and six days.

About three years ago she came with her parents to Iowa, locating near Hancock.
Being the only child and only granddaughter she found a warm place in the hearts and hopes of her parents and relatives who are now called upon to give her up from earthly activities. While this separation comes as a great earthly burden at this time yet through the love of God and the power of Jesus Christ her life does not cease and it is possible for all who remain to mourn her departure to so order their lives under the wisdom and guidance of our Heavenly Father and the help of our Lord and lord and Master, Jesus Christ, that one and all may eventually be brought together in the realms of heavenly glory where sin and sorrow and sadness and sickness and disease and death and separation shall be no more; and where joy and peace and happiness and life shall abound forever. May this affliction become an added means to bring all together into an unbroken family circle in that heavenly home.
The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two thirty o’clock in the First Congregational church.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank neighbors and friends for their kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our little daughter and for the many beautiful flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sarvis

From Scrapbooks of Bessie Gross Gustafsen
Source: Avoca Journal Herald