Lillian Maud "Maud" Norris (1884-1906)

NORRIS, ALDERMAN, EGGLESON, MILLER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/31/2010 at 12:38:41

From Nevada Representative January 31, 1906

DEATH OF MAUD NORRIS

Miss Maud Norris, second daughter of the late Fred A. Norris and of Mrs. Eletha Norris, died Monday evening at Santa Ana, California, and her body is expected here for burial about the last of this week. The news came this morning and is a great shock to relatives and friends. Little more than the fact of her death is yet known here; but the surmise is that she died as the result of an operation. Mrs. Norris resides at Tacoma, Washington; and Miss Maud has been at Orange, California, nursing, having graduated last summer from the hospital at Santa Ana. A recent letter from Mrs. Norris indicated apprehension that Maud might have to undergo an operation for gallstones; and the next advice is a telegram from Mrs. Norris at Santa Ana that Maud died as stated and would be brought home for burial.

Maud Norris was twenty-one years of age last November and was a young woman of exceptional brightness and attractiveness. She graduated from the Nevada high school in 1902 and from the Santa Ana hospital, as indicated, in 1905. She had lived most of her life in Nevada and was loved by her mates and admired by all others who knew her.

The greatest sympathy will be felt for her mother and relatives in their loss.

From Nevada Representative February 7, 1906

FUNERAL OF MAUD NORRIS

The body of Miss Maud Norris arrived in the charge of her mother Mrs. Eletha Norris, early Monday morning; and the funeral was conducted at the Lutheran church at two o'clock on Monday afternoon by Rev. J. O. Simon assisted by Rev. R. E. Shaw. The funeral was very largely attended; the sermon and the other services were highly appropriate, and the floral offerings were beautiful and profuse, many of them having come from friends in California.

The first inferences that Miss Norris had died as the result of an operation proved to be incorrect, as was also a seemingly definite report following, that she had died from typhoid fever. The fact was that her death was due to rheumatism of the heart, and that she was in the hospital at Santa Ana for nine days before she died. Her mother was summoned from Tacoma on Saturday, January 27th, and arrived at Santa Ana on the afternoon of the following Tuesday, having been delayed some on the route, Mrs. Norris reached her daughter's side a few hours before her death and was recognized, although there was little chance for conversation. There are many Nevada people at Santa Ana; and Mrs. Norris in the time of her bereavement was therefore among old friends. Funeral services were held at Santa Ana Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Alderman; and Mrs. Norris was started on her long journey home Friday afternoon from Los Angeles with the sympathy of friends and neighbors of a life-time. The journey from Los Angeles was made by way of Salt Lake City without change of cars, and Mrs. Norris arrived as stated on Monday morning.

Lillian Maud Norris was the third child and second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Norris; and shw was born in New Albany township of this county, November 26, 1884. She died at Santa Ana, California, January 30, 1906, aged 21 years, 3 months and 4 days. Her parents removed to Nevada when she was a little girl; and here she lived until she had in 1902 graduated from the Nevada high school and was blossoming into a most attractive womanhood. Mr. Norris having died in 1900, and the eldest child and only son Roy having gone to Tacoma, Mrs. Norris went out there in the summer of 1903; and Maud, who had been empolyed here in the telephone office, soon followed. In the fall of that year, however they went to Santa Ana; and in that November Maud entered the hospital at Santa Ana to learn the profession of a trained nurse. When her mother came back to Nevada and later went again to Tacoma, Maud remained at Santa Ana where she graduated from the hospital last June; and since then she had done nursing in that vicinity, having her home at Santa Ana. There she still was when the fatal illness came upon her.

Maud leaves besides her mother, an elder brother Roy at Tacoma, Washington, a married sister Grace, now Mrs. V. R. Eggleson of Sumner, in Bremer county of this state, and a younger sister Venna at Tacoma. The mother is now here at the home of the senior Mrs. Norris and will remain for a couple of weeks. The sister and her husband were also here to the funeral as were also Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Miller of Chicago, the latter being an aunt. At the funeral here there were also many friends from over this county, and a host of mourners among Maud's friends and mates in Nevada. The interment was in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery.

The story thus closed is especially sorrowful, in that it ends with the most untimely death of a wholly admirable young woman, who was just fairly launched on a life work of usefulness and helpfulness. The sympathy for her mother and brother and sisters is most profound; and the loss is felt by all who knew her well.