Helen Jane Shearer (July - Sept 1929)

SHEARER

Posted By: Jerry Hale (email)
Date: 12/3/2007 at 21:59:32

COLLINS GAZETTE 26 Sept 1929

DEATH OF LITTLE
HELEN JANE SHEARER

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The community was saddened last Thursday morning to learn of the death of little Helen Jane Shearer, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Shearer, which occurred at the Lutheran hospital in Des Moines on Wednesday evening.

Funeral services were held at the home on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. A. B. Kern of Lake City in charge. Interment was in Collins Evergreen cemetery.

OBITUARY

Helen Jane Shearer came to gladden the hearts of her parents on July 14, 1929, at Collins, Iowa. but God needed another angel in Heaven and little Helen answered the call to His summons on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1929, at Iowa Lutheran hospital, Des Moines, Ia., aged nine weeks and three days. While her stay on this earth was but of short duration, she had endeared herself to the hearts of many, who though they know that their loss is Heaven's gain, greatly mourn her departure. She is preceded in death by a baby sister Mariea Belle, and is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Shearer, brother Charles Thomas, and a host of other sorrowing relatives and friends.

Through this dark day your heart is sick with grieving and torn with disbelieving.

Though now you weep

Across the deep

Tempestuous sea of sorrow lies a shore

Where peace shall soothe your soul forevermore

(NOTE: Parents Charles Orion and Josephing (Tracy) Shearer; C.O. was the son of Eli Anderson and Martha Jane (Jones) Shearer)